Jazz Quotes - Page 12

• We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Mind, Trying

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• I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Play, Space

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• Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Music, Play, Soul

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• The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

  Jo Jones

  Music, Play, People

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• If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.

  Giuseppe Venuti

  Music, Mistake, Sound

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• When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

  John Coltrane

  Music, People, Desire

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• I'm into scales right now.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Scales, Right Now

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• The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

  John F. Kennedy

  Music, Art, Civilization

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• A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

  John Hendricks

  Music, Listening, Ears

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• Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

  Johnny Cash

  Music, Use, Cotton

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• How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Mean, Understanding

  Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.15, Random House

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• External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

  Yusef Lateef

  Music, Instruments, Extensions

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• As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

  Zoot Sims

  Music, Long, Mouths

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• If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

  Zoot Sims

  Music, Play, People

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• Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Country, Expression

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• If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Music, Feel Good

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• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Failure, Adversity

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  Cab Calloway

  Music, Clubs, Cotton

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• An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  Van Cliburn

  Music, Artist, Might

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• This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”

  Aaron Copland

  Music, States, Composer

  "What to Listen For in Music".

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• The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Ideas, Style

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• The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Argument, Pleasure

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• You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Play, Sincere

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Eye, Play

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