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“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship the tape somewhere. Well, none of the musicians have played together. You can’t play jazz music that way. In order for you to play jazz, you’ve got to listen to them. The music forces you at all times to address what other people are thinking and for you to interact with them with empathy and to deal with the process of working things out. And that’s how our music really could teach what the meaning of American democracy is.”
― Wynton Marsalis

“It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.”
― Miles Davis

“Life is a lot like jazz - it's best when you improvise.”
― George Gershwin

“Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician”
― Wynton Marsalis