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You've got to learn your instrument.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

Learn the changes, then forget them.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Hear with your eyes, see with your ears

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

I look at melody as rhythm.