When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it’s you who decides what to contribute. Wayne Shorter Read Quote
I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes – that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking order. Wayne Shorter Read Quote
When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He was actually mourning through his horn. Mourning, but it was also like a call to wake up. Wake up! Wayne Shorter Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same coin. And to know about life, we must really examine the function – like death. Life tells you a lot about what death is, not what people say it is. Wayne Shorter Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m the kind of person who jumps around when he talks because everything is connected. Wayne Shorter Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
