Jazz Quotes - Page 18

• One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

  Jon Anderson

  Music, Writing, Moments

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• Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

  Count Basie

  Music, Feet, Listening

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• The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  Count Basie

  Music, Real, Just Being

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• I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Song, Jobs

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• I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Play, Way

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• When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Parent, England

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• To work is to feel alive.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, Alive, Feels

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• I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, World, Performers

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• Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, Names, Giving

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• A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Motivation, Design

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• If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

  Betty Carter

  Music, Bird, Tonight

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• I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

  Ron Carter

  Music, Halloween, Responsibility

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• If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

  Jim Croce

  Music, Ifs

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• The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

  Maynard Ferguson

  Music, Great Day, Know How

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• Music should always be an adventure.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Travel, Adventure

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• You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Boys, Men

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• If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

  Eddie Harris

  Music, Believe, Ifs

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• Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Giving, Dizzy

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• When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, New York, Different

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• They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Want, Hard

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• Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

  Stanley Jordan

  Music, Circles, Genius

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• To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

  Michel Legrand

  Music, Spiritual, Play

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• Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

  Brad Mehldau

  Music, Damaged Goods, Nostalgia

  "Brad Mehldau's Opening, Middle And Endgame". Interview with Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 7, 2003.

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• I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

  Glenn Miller

  Music, Band, Want

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• Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

  George Shearing

  Music, Creativity, Firsts

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