~ Artie Shaw ~
"`Swing` is an adjective or a verb not a noun. A jazz musician should swing. There is no such thing as a `swing band` in music"
"There`s such a cynicism about the phrase `I laughed all the way to the bank` It`s as though money is what you`re doing, rather than playing music. If you`re playing a money game, why not get into banking?"
"Somebody asked me once, `Do you think that swing will ever come back?` And I said, `Do you think the 1938 Form will ever come back?`"
"Dance music - as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper...a windshield wiper that`s fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out of tune `Play Me Melancholy Baby` and you`ve got dance music."
"I can`t understand the guys who just have to have your autograph. I asked one of them `what do you do when you get home, take it out
and look at it?"
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~ Charlie Parker ~
"Music is your own experience, your thought, your wisdom. If you don`t live it, it won`t come out of your horn. They teach you there`s a boundary line to music. But, man, there`s no boundary line to art."
I kept thinking there`s bound to be somethings else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn`t play it."
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That is a very profound statement.
How many times has a `known tune` come onto our minds and we try to sing or hum or whistle it or try to play it but it just won`t quite come out. It`s like our minds have chamber doors.
Begin the Beguine ~
my melody