Best quotes by Roscoe Mitchell on Music

Checkout quotes by Roscoe Mitchell on Music

• ‟ I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

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

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• ‟ I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

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• ‟ What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

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• ‟ You can work on music a few lifetimes.

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• ‟ Music has a way of getting under your skin.

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• ‟ I'm trying to learn to really use space. My philosophy is that every time you interrupt space in a very confident, secure manner, then music happens.

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• ‟ What I'm after is a composed music that will sound like improvised music when improvisors play it. You shouldn't be able to tell what parts are being improvised and what parts were written out beforehand; it should sound like the same music.

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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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• ‟ 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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