I Heard Sidney Bechet Play A Duke

Play Difficult And Interesting Things. If You Play Boring Things, You Risk Losing Your Appetite. Saxophone Can Be Tedious With Too Much Of The Same.

Saxophone Is One Thing, And Music Is Another.

In Composition You Have All The Time You Want To Decide What To Say In 15 Seconds, In Improvisation You Have 15 Seconds.

A Jazz Musician Is A Combination Orator, Dialectician, Mathematician, Athlete, Entertainer, Poet, Singer, Dancer, Diplomat, Educator, Student, Comedian, Artist, Seducer, Public Masturbator, And General All-round Good Fellow.

If You Listen To Louis Armstrong From 1929, You Will Never Hear Anything Better Than That Really, And You Will Never Hear Anything More Free Than That.