Jazz Quotes - Page 13

• My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Spiritual, Expression

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• Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Fun, Guitar

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• All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Feelings, Technique

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• Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Thinking, Glasses

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• It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

  Bobby Darin

  Music, Know How, Knows

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• When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.

  Debbie Davies

  Music, Musician

  "Between Sets with Debbie Davies". Interview with Karl Stober, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Trying, Hips

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• Always look ahead, but never look back.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Looks

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• To keep creating you have to be about change.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Creating

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• If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

  Miles Davis

  Music, Understood, Ifs

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• I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Play, Way

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• You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Causes, Quitting

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• I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Swings, Purple

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• I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Confused, Nice

  " Wynton Marsalis: trumpeting controversial ideas of classicism" by Philip Clark, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2015.

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• You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Men, Should

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• So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Blue, Done

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• I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Museums, Pieces

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

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Father, Age

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• I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Lasts, Gimmicks

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• You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Knows

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• If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Crafts, Want

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• I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

  Roy Eldridge

  Music, Men, Names

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Should Have

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Mean, Doe

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• I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Should Have, Done

  "The Duke Ellington Reader".

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