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Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

I found the second sentence of this quote (dated 9/9/'49) and used it as a .sig quote for a while, then years later noticed it was my dad's birthday. But I hadn't seen the longer quote before.