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Roscoe Mitchell
Profession : Composer
Birth : August 3, 1940
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What I'm after is a composed music that will sound like improvised music when improvisors play it. You shouldn't be able to tell what parts are being improvised and what parts were written out beforehand; it should sound like the same music.
Roscoe Mitchell
Man, I used to go around and think, 'Oh my God, what must it be like to be going down the street, and someone asks you, 'What's your name?' and the reply would be, 'John Coltrane.' I couldn't imagine what that would be like.
Roscoe Mitchell
I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.
Roscoe Mitchell
I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources.
Roscoe Mitchell
My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.
Roscoe Mitchell
I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.
Roscoe Mitchell
I like to explore sounds.
Roscoe Mitchell
I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.
Roscoe Mitchell
I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.
Roscoe Mitchell
When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens.
Roscoe Mitchell
I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.
Roscoe Mitchell
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