Jazz Quotes - Page 6

• Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

  Paul Whiteman

  Musical, Age, Machines

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• There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

  Boris Vian

  Love, Music, Beautiful

  Boris Vian (2001). “I spit on your graves”, Canongate Books

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• I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.

  Mike Stern

  Music, Hard Work, Passion

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• Tim Price is one of the real ones !
  A good friend and a great player !

  Phil Woods

  Real, Good Friend, Player

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• If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

  Benny Goodman

  Music, Giving, Guy

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• You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

  Cannonball Adderley

  African American, Musician, Way

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• I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

  Keith Jarrett

  Music, School, Player

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• One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

  Pat Metheny

  Change, Home, Practice

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• Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Writing, Play

  "An Open Letter To Miles Davis". Charles Mingus, Downbeat Magazine, November 30, 1955.

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• Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

  Pat Martino

  Music, Jazz And Life, Musical

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• What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Music, Jazz Music

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• Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

  Charlie Parker

  Motivational, Music, Humorous

  "Words of Wisdom". Book edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 435, 1990.

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• Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

  Max De Pree

  Individual, Unpredictability

  Max De Pree (2008). “Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader”, p.7, Crown Business

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• Music is my religion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Religion, Rock N Roll

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• Jazz music is the power of now.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Power Of Now, Music Is

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• It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

  Dave Brubeck

  Piano Music, Orchestra, Whole

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• Critics have their purposes, 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 they did.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Thinking, Should Have

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.334, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

  George Santayana

  Football, Art, Kindness

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

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• In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Mistake, Europe

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• If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Reality, Escaping

  "An Open Letter To Miles Davis". Charles Mingus, Downbeat Magazine, November 30, 1955.

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• Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

  Jaco Pastorius

  Rehearsal, Tubing, Next

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• Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

  Clark Terry

  Pimp, Young, Wells

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• If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.

  Miles Davis

  Play, People, Might

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

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• Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Intensity

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