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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

Guitar Music Mistake Trying

As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.

Mean Opposites Play

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

Music People Tragedy

It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

Graduation Past Sweet

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.

Decision Music Splits

The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art

Art People Real

Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.

Love Is Passion Spiritual

I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.

New Orleans Play Swings

Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.

Applause Play

If you want to be different, do something different.

Healing Teens Want

The best way to be, is to do.

Best Way Motivational Way

The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

Justification Looking Down Picks

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

Jazz Knows Offers

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

Music Style Substance

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

Firsts Music Is Musician

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.

Art Past Self

How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

Mean Music Understanding

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.

Can Do Wish

Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.

Criticize Critics Doers

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

Cocky Jazz Player