46 Quotes by Lester Bowie

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

Music is very important. It’s important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.

We’re just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

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.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you’re truthful to your thing, you’ll succeed.

I always tell my students when you’re going to be a jazz musician the first thing you’ve got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.