It’s up to the person who’s being creative to find ways to emerge and shake up the world of wealth. Wayne Shorter Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When they say ‘jazz,’ I’m thinking of a word called ‘the creative process.’ It intersects every vein and tributary, avenue, path, that everyone’s living. It crosses through there, but it’s been contained. Wayne Shorter Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I believe in everyone staying as they are, and when you meld together, you get something more accurate and democratic. Wayne Shorter Read Quote
I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there’s a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don’t have. Wayne Shorter Read Quote
I would pass this music store on the way to school, and there was a clarinet in the window, a second-hand one. And I kept asking my parents to buy it, and eventually they did. I still have it now. Wayne Shorter Read Quote
Jazz at Lincoln Center is something that is very necessary for the creative process. There’s a couple of brothers running around New York, trying to buy up the cultural places, who shall remain nameless. Well, there’s a lot of brothers – pick any two. Pin the tail on the… they want to buy up stuff and steer the country a certain way. Wayne Shorter Read Quote
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 Read Quote
