Stan Getz Quotes - Page 2

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• You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Cameras, Jazz

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• I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.

  Stan Getz

  Thinking, Play, Trouble

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• I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

  Stan Getz

  Sound, Use, Bass

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• When I'm alcohol-free now and even to see the world around me, I appreciate it, but I never truly enjoy too much of it maybe because I feel like I'm a working musician. There are some joyous moments, but I will not think a joyous moment.

  Stan Getz

  Thinking, Appreciate, Alcohol

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• I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

  Stan Getz

  Years, Two, Habit

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• We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Records, Jazz

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• I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...I never tried to imitate anybody, but when you love somebody's music, you're influenced...I really don't know how I developed my sound, but it comes from a combination of my musical conception and no doubt the basic shape of the oral cavity.

  Stan Getz

  Doubt, Musical, Sound

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• I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

  Stan Getz

  Band, Jazz, Kind

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• I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

  Stan Getz

  Men, Appreciate

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• Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.

  Stan Getz

  Thinking, Special, Sound

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• My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

  Stan Getz

  Dark, Sound, Rooms

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