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 Read Quote
When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that’s always there. That’s not often that that happens. Roscoe Mitchell Read Quote
I’m into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you’re not going to run out of things to do. You’re never going to be the master of music. Roscoe Mitchell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes. Roscoe Mitchell Read Quote
Man, I used to go around and think, ‘Oh my God, what must it be like to be going down the street, and someone asks you, ‘What’s your name?’ and the reply would be, ‘John Coltrane.’ I couldn’t imagine what that would be like. Roscoe Mitchell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
