Top 32 Quotes by Roscoe Mitchell

About Roscoe Mitchell

These are some quotes by American author Roscoe Mitchell Composer, who was born on August 3, 1940.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

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.

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 trying to learn to really use space. My philosophy is that every time you interrupt space in a very confident, secure manner, then music happens.

I'm trying to learn to really use space. My philosophy is that every time you interrupt space in a very confident, secure manner, then music 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.

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

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.

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.

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 remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

Roscoe Mitchell

I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice.

I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice.

Roscoe Mitchell

It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'

Roscoe Mitchell

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