Paul Horn Quotes
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It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.
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Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.
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I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.
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It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.
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Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.
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You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
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We are journeying externally from country to country. We are traveling in historical time, from the present to the distant past. We are traveling inwardly as well, through the music of meditation.
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Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.