"If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player."

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Gunther Schuller

#Player Quotes #Bass Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.”
“Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.”
“It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.”
“Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.”
“I think of the world when I hurt, and keep on existing in the now”
“In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.”
“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
“Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?”

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