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Wayne Shorter Quotes
American
-
Musician
August 25, 1933
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Wayne Shorter
You
Freedom
Know
Want
Booth
Garfield
Nowhere
Station
Ticket
Train
Walked
Actor
Going
Guy
He
John
Movie
Says
Thought
Up
Where
Yes
You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
Wayne Shorter
You
Shadow
Girl
Who
Drawer
Get
Her
Left
Like
She
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
Me
Music
Go
Parents
Basketball
Behavior
Movements
Underneath
Audience
Everything
Important
Interesting
Just
Like
More
Players
Show
Some
Sound
Watch
Watching
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
Path
Thinking
They Say
Living
Avenue
Contained
Creative Process
Crosses
Jazz
Vein
Been
Creative
Every
Everyone
Process
Say
Through
Word
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
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
Politics
Music
Selfish
End
Existence
Inspires
Limited
Transcend
About
Anyone
Desire
Knows
Trying
Which
To me, the definition of faith is to fear nothing.
Wayne Shorter
Faith
Me
Fear
Nothing
Definition
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
Wisdom
Courage
Music
Think
Courageous
Draw
Emerge
Fearless
Leap
Opens
Portals
Potential
Rise
Sectors
Unknown
Always
I Think
Necessary
Takes
Up
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
Me
Song
Think
Beginning
Beethoven
Finished
Nine
Symphonies
Anything
End
Having
I Think
Thing
It's up to the person who's being creative to find ways to emerge and shake up the world of wealth.
Wayne Shorter
World
Person
Wealth
Creative
Emerge
Shake
Being
Find
Up
Ways
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
Day
Mind
Parents
Like
All Day
Let Us
Milk
Spaceship
Wagon
Anything
Become
Could
Kids
Our
Outside
Play
Something
Us
Were
Would
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
Music
Window
Parents
Way
Asking
Clarinet
Eventually
Pass
Second-Hand
Store
Buy
Did
Kept
Now
School
Still
Would
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
Life
You
Walk
People
Crowded
Familiar
Forks
Prefer
Travelled
Wider
Because
Call
Certain
Different
Front
Get
Less
Many
Most
Place
Road
Take
View
Want
Where
I'm the kind of person who jumps around when he talks because everything is connected.
Wayne Shorter
Who
Person
Everything
He
Connected
Jumps
Talks
Around
Because
Kind
There are colors we can't see, but they're connected to the ones we can, There's a connection between everything.
Wayne Shorter
Colors
See
Everything
Connection
Connected
Between
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
People
Know
He
Movement
Beethoven
Eight
Fifth
Symphony
Figure
Lot
Out
Second
Took
Wrote
Years
I believe in everyone staying as they are, and when you meld together, you get something more accurate and democratic.
Wayne Shorter
You
Believe
Together
More
Accurate
Democratic
Staying
I Believe In
Everyone
Get
I Believe
Something
Jazz is a fighter. The word 'jazz' means to me, 'I dare you. Let's jump into the unknown!'
Wayne Shorter
Me
You
Fighter
Jump
Dare
Jazz
Unknown
Means
Word
When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it's you who decides what to contribute.
Wayne Shorter
You
Your
Who
Own
Contribute
Decide
Miles
Play
Then
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
I always say that music is a small drop in the ocean of life. I was told a long time ago that your horn, or whatever instrument you play, is a means to be in the world.
Wayne Shorter
Life
Music
You
Long
Drop
Horn
Instrument
Long Time Ago
Ocean
Always
Long Time
Means
Play
Say
Small
Time
Whatever
World
Your
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
Life
Death
Music
You
Coin
Examine
Function
Life And Death
People Say
Perspective
Play Music
Reflects
Tells
About
Know
Like
Lot
Must
Now
Part
People
Play
Really
Same
Say
Try
I'm making strides to have dialogue with life. I'm walking down a garden path, something like that. And you're looking at the trees, and then you start to look at them through your inner eye.
Wayne Shorter
Life
You
Path
Look
Dialogue
Garden
Inner
Strides
Trees
Walking
Down
Eye
Like
Looking
Making
Something
Start
Them
Then
Through
Your
I think the music that's called 'future stuff' is the soundtrack to the few people who have the nerve and the courage to continue, to go to the end of the line and not be deterred.
Wayne Shorter
Future
Courage
Music
People
Deterred
Few People
Nerve
Soundtrack
Continue
End
Few
Go
I Think
Line
Stuff
Think
Who
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
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
Walking
Real
Church
Like
Albert
Coltrane
Horn
John Coltrane
Memorial
Mourning
Passed
Wake
Wake Up
Actually
Also
Call
Came
He
His
John
Out
Playing
Through
Up
Were
I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes - that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking order.
Wayne Shorter
World
Bridge
Sometimes
Know
Break Up
Classical
Pecking
Violin
Break
His
Order
Playing
Up
Whole
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