American - Composer | August 3, 1940 -
I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.
Roscoe Mitchell
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My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.
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I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.
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I like to explore sounds.
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I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.
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I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.
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When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens.
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I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.
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