Top 25 Lester Bowie Quotes (2024 Update)

Lester Bowie Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.”

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

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Lester Bowie Quote: “We’re just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.”

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

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Lester Bowie Quote: “The trumpet is forceful.”

4. “The trumpet is forceful.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.”

5. “They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It’s music that we really feel.”

7. “The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It’s music that we really feel.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “The way we look at it, everything is a sound.”

9. “The way we look at it, everything is a sound.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “Play as well as you can all the time, and if you’re truthful to your thing, you’ll succeed.”

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

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Lester Bowie Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “It’s just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.”

13. “It’s just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.”

14. “You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “I’m only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.”

16. “I’m only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.”

17. “A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “Jazz groups have to make a living any way.”

18. “Jazz groups have to make a living any way.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That’s what it’s all about for us.”

19. “We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That’s what it’s all about for us.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “They’re not just interested in one sort of music any more.”

20. “They’re not just interested in one sort of music any more.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that’s what we’re into.”

21. “These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that’s what we’re into.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “They always say that jazz doesn’t sell, but it’s a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.”

22. “They always say that jazz doesn’t sell, but it’s a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “Many times you never know what’s going to happen. You’ll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.”

23. “Many times you never know what’s going to happen. You’ll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.”

24. “You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.”

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

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Lester Bowie Quote: “You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.”

26. “You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.”

27. “These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “A chord is just the name of a sound.”

28. “A chord is just the name of a sound.”

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Lester Bowie Quote: “And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.”

29. “And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.”

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