Roscoe Mitchell Quotes

• If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Music, Trying, Way

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• I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Musical

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• What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Practice, Trying, Musician

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• I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  People, Way, Study

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• I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Music, Bells, Next

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• You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Music, Jazz, Composition

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• I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Remember, Scene, Flourishing

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• I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Writing, Periods, Concerts

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• I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Boxes, Composing

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