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\"Bechet_sidney\"<\/a>\u201cIf you know in advance every note you\u2019re going to play and just the way you\u2019re going to play it, there\u2019s no need to have feelings.  Like that, i<\/span>f you\u2019ve got a feeling, you just can\u2019t use it; you can\u2019t even stay interested.  <\/span>Music like that, you could almost make a machine play it for you.\u201d  <\/span>Sidney Bechet<\/em><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you know in advance every note you\u2019re going to play and just the way you\u2019re going to play it, there\u2019s no need to have feelings.  Like that, if you\u2019ve got a feeling, you just can\u2019t use it; you can\u2019t even stay interested.  Music like that, you could almost make a machine play it for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"\nJazz is... - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/01\/jazz-is-14.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jazz is... - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cIf you know in advance every note you\u2019re going to play and just the way you\u2019re going to play it, there\u2019s no need to have feelings.  Like that, if you\u2019ve got a feeling, you just can\u2019t use it; 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