Jazz Quotes - Page 30

• Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Crazy, Men, Play

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• It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

  Miles Davis

  Years, Practice, Play

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• My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

  Frank Sinatra

  Teacher, Singers, Way

  Foreword to George T Simon The Big Bands (1967).

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• I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!

  Tommy Dorsey

  Wish, Important, Dodge

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.

  Louie Bellson

  White, Tuxedos, Up To You

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• Tommy Dorsey was the last of the band leaders... He was ahead of his time; if he got drunk, he got difficult, but then who the hell isn't difficult when you get drunk.

  Dick Haymes

  Drunk, Leader, Band

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• Bebop has set music back twenty years.

  Tommy Dorsey

  Years, Twenties, Bebop

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• I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

  Duke Ellington

  Kings, Son, Night

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• Listen to her voice, don't look at her.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Voice, Looks

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• Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Voice, People, Doe

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• She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Female, Singers, Has Beens

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• Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Song, Sound, Doe

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• She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Song, Class, Creative

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• Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Gentleman, Indifference, Magnificent

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• Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Thinking, People, Want

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• Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Want, Bops, Ends

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• I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Done, Apologizing, Used

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• He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.

  Helen Forrest

  Names, Forget, Pops

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• I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Girl, Singers

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• I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.

  Herbie Hancock

  Artist, Years, Mind

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• The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

  Billie Holiday

  Fall, Pits, Orchestra

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• In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.

  Billie Holiday

  Country, Kings, Men

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• Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

  Scott Joplin

  Play, Pieces, Ragtime

  Victoria J. Theodore, Scott Joplin, Stanford University. Dept. of Music (1990). “The ragtime solo piano works of Scott Joplin: an analysis and performing edition of three pieces”

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• Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'...
  Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'...
  Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag'...
  Now take your lady to the world's fair (...)
  And do the 'rag time dance.'

  Scott Joplin

  Cake, Rags, World

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• Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

  Scott Joplin

  Movement, Ragged

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