Jazz Quotes - Page 14

• I expect the audience to come up to my level.

  Don Ellis

  Music, Levels, Come Up

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• To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

  Don Ellis

  Music, Thinking, Artist

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• The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

  Barry Finnerty

  Music, Challenges, Spontaneity

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• When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, Block, Holiday

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• The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, People, Stories

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• What we hear is the quality of our listening.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Listening, Quality

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• If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Audience, Ifs

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• If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

  Pete Fountain

  Music, Thinking, People

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• Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

  Erroll Garner

  Music, Play, Something New

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• Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

  Kenny Garrett

  Music, Play

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• Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

  George Gershwin

  Music, Best Things, Gershwin

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• Love is sweeping the country.

  Ira Gershwin

  Music, Country, Love Is

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Music, Encouragement

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

  Stan Getz

  Music, Records, Documents

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• I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Lying, Believe

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• Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Art, Giving

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• You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Textbooks

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• One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Reason, Process

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• They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Dance, Long

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• If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Play, Might

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• Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Beautiful, Beautiful Words

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• When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Tunes, Kind

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• Always pack your uniform on top.

  Freddie Green

  Music, Uniforms, Packs

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• Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

  Charlie Haden

  Music, Art, Creative

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• I don't dig staying in one groove.

  Chico Hamilton

  Music, Stay Strong, Groove

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