11 Christian Scott Quotes for You to Enjoy

Christian Scott

American Musician

Born: Mar 31, 1983

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It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone. Christian Scott

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Even if I have a good day, I still am aware of other people that are going through really hard, tumultuous things. I don't want to be the person who has a platform and neglects the things I see in my life and experiences. Christian Scott

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It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world. Christian Scott

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I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick. Christian Scott

Musicians Think Trick Only Lot Artists Really

At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a tribe's diplomat. He carries the game's standard and is really the line of where the game starts. Christian Scott

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My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly. Christian Scott

Me Horn Hybrid Voice Main Had Like Liked Instrument Because Trumpet Any Different Them Really Each

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music. Christian Scott

Music Musicians Make Referring Younger Stretch

I live in New York, but I'm gone 310, 320 days a year. My apartment is storage. Christian Scott

Year Gone Live New Days York New York Storage Apartment

The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It's one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles. Christian Scott

Change Generation People Jazz Those Kind One Thing Stuff New Learned New Generation Five-Year Did Same Same Stuff Where The One Thing Cycles Works Each Thing Things Last

You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself. Christian Scott

You Generation Achieve Say Find Greater Itself Than Contributions Going Predecessors Anything Each Grow Each Generation Ever Chance

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