Music Quotes - Page 19

• Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

  Ahmad Alaadeen

  Race, America, Doe

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• My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.

  Booker Little

  Stress, Emotional, Feelings

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• Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

  Duke Ellington

  Marriage, Work, Play

  Music Is My Mistress act 8 "Pedestrian Minstrel" (1973)

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• The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

  Stan Getz

  People, Soul, Digging

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• I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

  Paul Desmond

  Thinking, Mind, Sound

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• I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.

  Artemas Ward

  Saddest, I Can

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  Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspiring, Retirement, Aging

  1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

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• There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

  Dave Brubeck

  Mistake, Order, Play

  FaceBook post by Dave Brubeck from Aug 14, 2012

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• Jazz is about being in the moment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Jazz, Moments, Jazz Music

  Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey (2014). “Herbie Hancock: Possibilities”, p.10, Penguin

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• Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Jazz, Genre, Borrowed

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• The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

  Herbie Hancock

  Spirit, Jazz, Openness

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• We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

  B. B. King

  Being Yourself, Guitar, Idols

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• All you need is love.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Philosophy

  John Lennon (2002). “The Songs of John Lennon: The Beatles Years”, p.214, Berklee Press

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• The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

  Andres Segovia

  Beautiful, Ocean, Flower

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• Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

  Nina Simone

  White, Racism, People

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

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• A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

  Stan Getz

  Ideas, Jazz, Conversation

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• Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

  Duke Ellington

  Missing You, Playing Jazz, Scrabble

  1954 In Look, 10 Aug.

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• All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

  John Coltrane

  Jazz And Life, Source, Natural Law

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

  Miles Davis

  Swings, Purple, Long

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• Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

  Lionel Hampton

  Thinking, Talking, Way

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• I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

  Charles Mingus

  Jazz, Spontaneous, Composer

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

  Sonny Rollins

  Spiritual, Jazz, Ability

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• Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

  Clark Terry

  Musical, Jazz

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• Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

  Wes Montgomery

  Play, African American, Jazz

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• Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

  Pat Martino

  Jazz And Life, Musical, Jazz

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