Quotes about Roscoe Mitchell

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

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What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the...

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

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I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's...

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I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed...

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

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I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to...

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I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

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I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I...

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

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

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