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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."
Jazz,
"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."
"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz."
"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."
Jazz,
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
Jazz,
"Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions."
Jazz,
"I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz."
Explore more quotes by Toots Thielemans
"My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine."
"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."
"And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality."
"You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning."
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