Roscoe Mitchell Quotes

#1. Prayer has to be fervent, intensive, passionate and from the heart.

Sunday Adelaja

#2. I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Roscoe Mitchell

#3. Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#4. I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

Roscoe Mitchell

#5. What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

Roscoe Mitchell

#6. If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

Roscoe Mitchell

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

Roscoe Mitchell

#8. I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

Roscoe Mitchell

#9. You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Roscoe Mitchell

#10. I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

Sophocles

#11. (J)oy deserves always more.

Linda McCarriston

#12. I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

Roscoe Mitchell

#13. I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

Roscoe Mitchell

#14. I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Roscoe Mitchell

#15. I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

Roscoe Mitchell

#16. What would be enough? He had an answer he wanted to hear, but I withheld it. Games and more games. We would always be dancing with each other, the Goblin King and I.

S. Jae-Jones

#17. Nice to meet you," Durand says in a ridiculously deep voice. Jeez, he sounds like Batman. "I'm

Erin Watt