Lester Bowie Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

  Lester Bowie

  Music, Memorable, Exercise

• They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

  Lester Bowie

  Lying, Years, Doe

• Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

  Lester Bowie

  Mistake, Cat, Thinking

• A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

  Lester Bowie

  Jazz, Periods, Sells

• I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

  Lester Bowie

  Mean, Musician, Firsts

• Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

  Lester Bowie

  Groups, Way, Jazz

• What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

  Lester Bowie

  Years, Trying, Jazz

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