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Bandleader Inspirational Quotes (1464)

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I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.
Billy Eckstine
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Perception determines insanity.
Phil Collins
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I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
Kevin Eubanks
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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
Duke Ellington
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If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
Billy Eckstine
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I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.
Dizzy Gillespie
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Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.
Miles Davis
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You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
Billy Eckstine
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I remember when I wrote a piece, Blood on the Fields, it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about two characters, and I studied so much of music, I would always go back to the original documents, and as much as I can get original chants and slave chants and different type of beats and rhythms and ring shout.
Wynton Marsalis
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I'm working with a producer, Scott Jacoby, who co-wrote Trouble off No Beginning No End. Without giving away too much, it's a definite pop/r&b vibe, pretty strong melodies, and definitely about songs.
Jose James
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Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.
Quincy Jones
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Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
Sun Ra
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[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.
Ella Fitzgerald
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I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.
Count Basie
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As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'
Troy Duffy
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An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.
Artie Shaw
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Red beans and ricely yours.
Louis Armstrong
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I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
Herbie Hancock
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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
Louis Armstrong
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I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
John Philip Sousa
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Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money and never know who Walt Whitman was, and never read a poem.
Wynton Marsalis
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I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.
Paul Winter
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It's not the teaching, it's the learning.
Sly Stone
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