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Bandleader Inspirational Quotes (1464)

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The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, This is for me.
Wynton Marsalis
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
Miles Davis
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
Bill Wyman
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
Duke Ellington
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Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.
Dave Brubeck
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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
Herbie Hancock
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If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
Count Basie
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
Quincy Jones
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People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music it's standing up there under the lights. A lot of women just flip looks have nothing to do with it. You call Mick Jagger good-looking?
Artie Shaw
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
Miles Davis
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All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.
Jack Teagarden
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
Miles Davis
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The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
Wynton Marsalis
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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young, every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
Quincy Jones
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I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.
Kevin Eubanks
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Simplicity is a most complex form
Duke Ellington
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
Herbie Hancock
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Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.
Wynton Marsalis
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The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.
Roger Dawson
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I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.
Herbie Hancock
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The recording industry has changed they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field
Gerry Mulligan
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
Miles Davis
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Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American.
Wynton Marsalis
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Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.
Wynton Marsalis
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