Jazz Quotes - Page 11

• In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

  Charlie Haden

  Music, Thinking, Creating

  FaceBook post by Charlie Haden from Feb 15, 2015

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• I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, I Like You, Mets

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• Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

  Danny Barker

  Music, Creativity, Creative Space

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• Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Want, Reason

  Doug Ramsey, Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, Paul Caulfield (2005). “Take five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond”, Parkside Pubns

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• I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Pillow, Left

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• Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Men, Serious

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• All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

  Don Pullen

  Music, Use, Life Is

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• Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

  Cornel West

  Music, Needs, Language

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• It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Play, Murder

  New York Herald Tribune, July 09, 1961.

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• Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Children, Mind

  "Music Is My Mistress". Book by Duke Ellington, 1973.

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  Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Occupation, Compulsion

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• There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Music, Art, Artist

  Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

  Ed Thigpen

  Music, Blessed, People

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• As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Glasses, Broken

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• They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Drink, Flats

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• Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Girl, Sound

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• I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, People, Done

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• Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

  Frank Capra

  Music, Math, Two

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Music, Growth, Ears

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• The history of a people are found in its songs.

  George Jellinek

  Music, Song, People

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• I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

  George Russell

  Music, Writing, Self

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• If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

  George Russell

  Music, Two, America

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• I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball. They're the three most beautifully designed things this culture has ever produced.

  Gerald Early

  Music, Baseball, Thinking

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• Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Music, Mouths, Murder

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• Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

  Henry Threadgill

  Music, Art, Crafts

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