46 Quotes by Lester Bowie

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.