Pete Fountain quotes
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“What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.”
-- Pete FountainSource : "Jazz festival plans commemoration for trumpeter Al Hirt". www.cnn.com. April 28, 1999.
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“If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.”
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“I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.”
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“If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.”
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Source : Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.169, 谷月社
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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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