Chords for Pharoah Sanders - interview (Message from Home periode)

_ _ I'd never go out [F] in New York.
I never go out unless I'm working.
I love staying in the house
I don't know why [Fm]
and I know that [Gm] guys are playing out there, you know
I [F] think they're great musicians all the younger musician that I'm hearing about
you [Bb] know and
_ [Fm] It just seemed like maybe I'm getting a little old.
[Bbm] I don't _
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like
[G] People start coming out, [F] you know at night
[Eb] Because of the violence stuff like that, you know
_ back in the 60s and
There was a lot of things happens a lot of a lot of music
_ Happening and a lot of guys was was working and more and more musician
I'm just was like working at that time and
Express themselves.
There were more places to play and _ _
And those are those a great audience for it, you know
_ [F] _ _
_ _ _ I
[Gb] Worked with John, you know and up here, you know, he was he was into health
[C] _ fitness and
trying to eat right trying to
body, you know in shape and _
and
_ And we never talked about music too much, you know, you know he
_ What he saw in me, you know, I don't know.
I don't I probably never know, you know, he
_ Asked me to play play for a while and and from that experience, you know, it just grew and
Came apart of me at that time and that was that was great great great experience for me, you know
And I think John Coltrane was one of my big big big influence
_ besides
Another tenor player back in my hometown _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ I
Love _ _ _ _
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that _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Dm] _ [Ab] type of person you [D] come in I
Have I have an idea or [Dm] something?
I'm looking for something just
[E] Just come in just let it happen
[Eb] _ [F] And I try to do my most most important thing is myself
[Bb] Trying to play and [D] do my best
_ _ _ To make the best kind of music, you know trying to trying to communicate with with the rest of the musicians
_ _ I'm not so much of a
You know technical player myself
_ _ And probably not
_ _ _ That much of you know intellectual player as some other musicians
You know my my what I do
_ Is you know express? _ _
That's what I do
Before I went over there, you know, I was on the west coast for a while
Maybe about six years and and so I happened to play with some of rock and musician there on the west coast
So when I went to Morocco on the trip to make a recording it wasn't it was new to me
About the instruments and
And the way the music would take me every day.
We went to this palace
There was a Muslim brother.
Well, you know, he let us use a place and
We came [Eb] every day and we recorded every day one tune that I that I wrote myself, you know
I started playing it so they could hear it, you know how to go but seemed like the first time I played it down they just
Caught it, you know and from that point we went on and use it as a as like a skeleton and build from it, you know
_ and they seem to add something that
_ Something else to it that I'd never live
Think of I never thought of you know doing which made it even greater in
_ And much greater greater, you know [N] experience playing _
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I
_ _ _ Saw [D] to criticize myself a lot
_ [G] _ _ Trying to go back to listen to something, you know, I
Knew I could have done better.
I just don't want to hear it anymore
You know everything comes to comes from from like within with me, you know
And that's how I do it.
I don't know about somebody else, you know another person, you know, that's [Ab] this the way I do it
You know, it all [Gm] has has has come from [Fm] inside, you know
It may not be knowing into what it what it's all about, you know
[Eb] but that's how
That's how I you know express it, you know the way I [Bb] feel and try to
[Eb] Bring the best [C] of myself the best quality of myself _ _
_ Trying to grow and
_ [B] Trying to develop, you know [Eb] and trying to be
[G] I _ mean trying to be a
man of qualities _ _ _ _
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