Lester Bowie Quotes
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Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.
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Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
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A chord is just the name of a sound.
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We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.
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The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
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We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.
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We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
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Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
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It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.
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Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!