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Quote from Charlie Parker
In the quest for space and a better user experience, the random quotes feature at the top of Horn Matters has been taken down. If you were a fan of this feature, fear not (!) – that bank of wisdom is something that will make excellent material for future posts like this one.
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
- Charlie Parker
This reminds me of some great advice from my conservatory teacher Milan Yancich. He always encouraged students to take music jobs that involved travel – a foreign job, a tour, a residency or just a road-trip to a gig.
When it came to taking jobs or something like moving to the Big City to take private lessons and play gigs, Mr. Yancich’s first question was always – “are you single?”
If the answer was ‘yes’ he would launch into an animated sermon on the benefits of life experience in horn playing.
Eager to advance as quickly as possible, I would often ask him – how do I get experience, Mr. Yancich?
He would just laugh softly to himself and ask me to resume performing the Farkas routine for him.
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