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I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

~Donald Byrd

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They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

~Donald Byrd

Topics: Behind Cool Did Like Music People Stuff Tupac Use

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I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

~Donald Byrd

Topics: Across Band Brought Coltrane Day Dizzy Downstairs Had He Heath His Jimmy Join Joined Just Lap Looked Me Met One Day Piano Play Said Saxophone School See Sitting Trumpet Waiting Want Where You

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I don't follow what everybody else does.

~Donald Byrd

Topics: Does Else Everybody Everybody Else Follow

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I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

~Donald Byrd

Topics: Any Bach Hip-Hop Music Numbers Series Take Turn I Can

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I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I also decided on the subject that I wanted to get involved with in addition to music: it was Black Studies.

~Donald Byrd

Topics: Addition Also Black Decided Get Institution Involved Like Music School Some Studies Subject Thought Time Wanted Would

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I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

~Donald Byrd

Topics: Antiques Being Cats Doing Going Had Hard Jazz Jazz Musicians Looked Making Musicians Other Overnight Reserved Ridiculed Rock Rock N Roll Roll Scene School See Successes Them Then Were Whole You

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My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

~Donald Byrd

Topics: About Back Been Concerns Even Giving Head Myself Putting Something Though

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It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

~Donald Byrd

Topics: About Also Always Artist Black Case Choreographer Color Denial Dilemma Fact First In Fact Incredible Saying Then

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My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

~Donald Byrd

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 9th, 1932

Died: February 4th, 2013

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