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American bandleader, Saxophonist and Composer. Principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop. 1920-1955

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“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

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

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“You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.”

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

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“I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.”

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“Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain straight liar . . . You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.”

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“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

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“We want to have the place jumping, ... Traditional British people have to start re-examining themselves and their culture in terms of addressing the new age.”

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