Jackie McLean Quotes:
Ocupation: Composer
Life: May 17, 1931 - March 31, 2006
Birthday: May 17
Death: March 31
I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?'
