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At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London. ↗

— Jamie Muir

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He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them. ↗

— Jamie Muir

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I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke. ↗

— Jamie Muir

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The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water. ↗

— Jamie Muir

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The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them. ↗

— Jamie Muir

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. ↗

— John Muir

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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. ↗

— John Muir

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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. ↗

— John Muir

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You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. ↗

— John Muir

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