Paul Smoker Quotes
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I don’t know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven’t heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world (Paul Smoker Quotes)
Once I leave the studio I’m ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven’t heard (Paul Smoker Quotes)
I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note (Paul Smoker Quotes)
I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There’s a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do (Paul Smoker Quotes)
I don’t really have a career as a jazz musician. I don’t really have a career as a classical musician. I don’t really have a career as a college professor, and yet I did all those things and I did them well. I put out some records in the 1980’s and 1990’s that changed the way some trumpet players played (Paul Smoker Quotes)