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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
American Musician
Born: Aug 25, 1933
Creative Life Me Music People You
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I'm trying to do music which inspires the desire to transcend politics, which has a limited and selfish and egoist and unknowledgable end about what anyone knows about existence. Wayne Shorter
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It's up to the person who's being creative to find ways to emerge and shake up the world of wealth. Wayne Shorter
Creative World Wealth Ways Find Emerge Shake Up Person Being
There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be. Wayne Shorter
Life You People Walk Crowded Take Road Most Call Because Familiar Get Front Where Different Forks Want Place Prefer Certain View Less Many Travelled Wider
Jazz is a fighter. The word 'jazz' means to me, 'I dare you. Let's jump into the unknown!' Wayne Shorter
Me You Word Jazz Fighter Unknown Dare Jump Means
There's a steady forward march of a creative process that some of us stay with and don't give up - that should be an admirable thing - from Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Miles to Ornette and some people who are not even known today - some kids coming up - people who are out to change the world. Wayne Shorter
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Music is just sound - what's more important to me is behavior. I'm watching these play-offs - basketball - it's interesting to watch behavior, underneath all the movements and everything like that. They go into the audience and show some of the parents of the players and all that. Wayne Shorter
Music Me Behavior Parents Important Everything Some More Like Underneath Audience Sound Go Just Movements Interesting Show Watch Players Watching Basketball
To me, the definition of faith is to fear nothing. Wayne Shorter
Faith Me Fear Nothing Definition
To me, a song is not finished. To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything. All of Beethoven's nine symphonies, to me, are one. I think of it as having no beginning and no end. Wayne Shorter
Me Song Finished Beginning Think Symphonies Nine Having Beethoven End Anything Thing
When we were kids, our parents would let us play outside all day, and there was a horse-drawn milk wagon that could become anything in my mind, like a spaceship or something. Wayne Shorter
Day Mind Parents Become Our All Day Kids Would Something Could Outside Like Wagon Were Anything Spaceship Us Let Us Milk Play
A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that out! Wayne Shorter
People Symphony Took Out He Know Wrote Years Beethoven Lot Movement Eight Fifth Figure Second
I believe in everyone staying as they are, and when you meld together, you get something more accurate and democratic. Wayne Shorter
You Together Believe Everyone Staying Something More Democratic Accurate Get
When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it's you who decides what to contribute. Wayne Shorter
You Own Contribute Decide Then Your Miles Who Play
Movies would be like a broad painted canvas... or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, 'What is electricity?' Along with the images that go on the screen, there's a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you're aware of it or not. Wayne Shorter
You Broad Would Would-Be Corridor Through Mystical Along Pictures Like Motion Motion Pictures Dialogue Go Screen Happen Cannot Process Whether Which Canvas Explained Movies Really Electricity Painted Aware Images
I'm making strides to have dialogue with life. I'm walking down a garden path, something like that. And you're looking at the trees, and then you start to look at them through your inner eye. Wayne Shorter
Life You Garden Path Looking Down Trees Strides Eye Something Through Like Look Making Dialogue Walking Them Then Your Start Inner
I think the music that's called 'future stuff' is the soundtrack to the few people who have the nerve and the courage to continue, to go to the end of the line and not be deterred. Wayne Shorter
Music Future Courage People Few Think Nerve Deterred Stuff Soundtrack Go Line Continue End Few People Who
I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes - that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking order. Wayne Shorter
World Sometimes Classical Know His Up Order Break Break Up Whole Bridge Playing Pecking Violin

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