Paul Desmond Quotes About Jazz

• I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Jazz, Week

• The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Simplicity, Important

• Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

  Paul Desmond

  Writing, Talking, Taught

• I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Thinking, Mind

• I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Father, Age

• I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Musical, Jazz

• I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

  Paul Desmond

  Sleep, Wrestling, Rooms

• We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.

  Paul Desmond

  Style, Going Out, Jazz

• Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Elderly, Twenties

• Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

  Paul Desmond

  Play, People, Perfect

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