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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
- Nov 07, 2020
But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was supposed to play jazz.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to practice with my life.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.
- Hearts
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is people's hearts that move the age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is about being in the moment.
- Miles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
- Emphasized
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music becomes something that is its own entity.
- Openness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
- Exhibit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not special, no more special than anybody else.
- Nov 07, 2020
Take whatever happens and try to make it work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
- Clocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020