Lester Young quotes
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“The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.”
-- Lester Young -
“Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.”
-- Lester Young
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”
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Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar". Book by Marshall Brown, 1899.
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