Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Threadgill

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American composer Henry Threadgill.

Last updated on November 23, 2024.

Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. He came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles rooted in jazz but with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating other genres of music. He has performed and recorded with several ensembles: Air, Aggregation Orb, Make a Move, the seven-piece Henry Threadgill Sextett, the twenty-piece Society Situation Dance Band, Very Very Circus, X-75, and Zooid.

American - Composer | Born: February 15, 1944

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That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I don't care to follow and to do what the mass is doing. That is not doing anything, to be doing what everyone else is doing. Everybody is unique. The funny thing about people now is that people don't really understand or really appreciate how unique each individual on earth is.

Henry Threadgill

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

Henry Threadgill

People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They want to play on Broadway. Those that want to play traditional jazz and have no interests in the ideas of improvisation. So in spit of the fact that there are fifty violin players, you might only narrow it down to ten and within those ten, there might only be three who have the right kind of background and credentials to deal with what you need to deal with. Everybody's got their own special thing that they are after and a lot of times you don't have time to be training people.

Henry Threadgill

Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.

Henry Threadgill

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

Henry Threadgill