"You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it."

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I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.

— Branford Marsalis