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Art Tatum really turned me on … One day he said, ‘Don, don’t ever worry about what you’re going to play or where the ideas are going to come from. Just remember there is no such thing as a wrong note.’ He said, ‘What makes a note wrong is when you don’t know where to go after that one’ … You hit one. If that’s not right, you hit another. If that’s not right you hit another one, so you just keep hitting … As long as you keep going you’re all right, but don’t stop, because if you stop you’re in trouble. Don’t ever stop unless you’re at a station.

Don Byas, interviewed by Art Taylor in Paris, November 11, 1969 (from Taylor’s book Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews)

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