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My relationship with the trumpet
is very conflicting.

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I think it is a terrible instrument.
I cannot even say I like it.

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Even as a listener
I am not a fan of trumpeters.

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I am a fan of certain trumpeters.
like Armstrong, Bix.

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Miles, Chet Baker.

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However, I can't stand the typical
trumpeter, with all the high notes.

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And I can't stand
the instrument itself.

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I must have thought 2.000 times
about changing instrument,

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playing sax, for example,
something less harsh.

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It is an instrument
that requires...

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at least 1 or 2 hours a day
of habitual practising.

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I don’t like studying, in general,
I was not a good student.

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I didn't want to study,
I didn't want to study music theory.

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I loved music, I've listed to it
ever since I was a child,

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but I didn't want to study solfège,
or things like that,

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and today I still
have a horror of that.

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Just hearing that word
makes me feel horrified.

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Learning by yourself
is much faster than studying,

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ever since I was in my mother's
womb I have listened to music,

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she played the piano very well.

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And I've listened to many albums.
I did not study music theory.

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but I had all these rules
inside of me.

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While listening to my first
jazz records.

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I immediately realised
how it worked.

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Many people, many jazz lovers,
most of them...

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listen to jazz
but do not know how it works.

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Maybe they like it
for other reasons,

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they are impressed
from an emotional point of view,

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but they do not know
how a solo evolves.

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I understood,
from the very first moment,

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that there was a harmonic basis
on which a theme was developed,

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then the theme ended,

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and the harmonic basis was repeated
cyclically, a cycle of chords,

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and on this cycle
improvisation arose.

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It was not a random,
piss-poor improvisation.

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as they say, it was not.

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I immediately understood that.

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Learning to play was just...
I had the notes in my head.

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the sound of the notes
that I wanted to make.

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I just had to find them.
Rules are important for everything,

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even to cross the road
without risking being run over,

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or to have a healthy diet
to prevent diseases.

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It is the same with music,

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but rules are also made
to be broken,

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especially in music, but also
in literature, in painting.

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When you break the rules,

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even if you know them or
you assimilated them somehow,

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even if you did not study them,

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you break them and make
the whole thing change direction,

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creating something unexpected,
different and original.

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Improvisation, actually...

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it is a mix of fragments of memory.

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The most classic example
is when 2 people talk,

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they are improvising,
they are not reading from a script.

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They choose a topic,

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let's talk about the election
of the President of the Republic,

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let's talk about this topic,

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you say your opinion,
the other responds,

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then you answer,
you pose a question...

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We are using grammar, syntax,
subjects, direct objects, verbs,

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there is subjunctive and
conditional. There is a logic.

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Improvisation is exactly the same.

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Just like when you talk,
you use phrases.

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phrases that you have already
used a thousand times.

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Now I am talking,
but I am not inventing a language.

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I am saying sentences I have
already said millions of times.

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I am just building
them in a different way.

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to say what I want to say.

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That is exactly what happens
when you improvise.

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Usually, when you play,
you do not think about anything,

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you think about the music,
but not even about the music,

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you try to identify with the sound,
with what you are doing.

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It is like playing a part,

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a good actor entering a role,

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in that moment they are not
thinking they are playing a part,

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or how to act,

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when they enter the role
they become Richard III,

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or any other character.

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You have to enter the sound,
you do not have to think,

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when you start to think
it is a disaster.

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You have to enter the music,
full stop.

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Imagine a white wall,

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and we have to paint
a big fresco, all together.

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Each one of us has to add
what is lacking,

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and remove what is in excess.

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Together we have to find a way
to paint this fresco.

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It is the same with music.

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I often say that,
when it happens,

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it is the perfect example
of an absolute and ideal democracy,

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which will never exist in reality.

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It is a microcosm,

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where everybody gives
what is needed,

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and everybody receives
what they need,

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nobody imposes their will,
without abandoning your ego.

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There is a perfect balance

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that is connected
to our inner balance.