Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
Lester BowieWe just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.
Lester BowieI always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.
Lester BowieYou play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.
Lester Bowie