Ray Brown Quotes

• The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

  Ray Brown

  Music, Jazz, Fewer

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• Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

  Ray Brown

  Jazz, Feels

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• Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

  Ray Brown

  Live Life, Jazz, Lifestyle

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• The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

  Ray Brown

  Home, Years, Five

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• I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.

  Ray Brown

  New York, Nice, House

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• Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

  Ray Brown

  Music, Jazz, Feels

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• The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one and only. He was one of the greatest Blues players that I ever heard and played with. Nobody can play like Sweets man, nobody! Most of us, musicians, frequently quote Sweets' phrases in our solos. Like Lester Young, Sweets had a big influence on us musicians, especially when we play some Blues.

  Ray Brown

  Sweet, Unique, Player

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• People are trading distance for dollars.

  Ray Brown

  Distance, Long, People

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• I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.

  Ray Brown

  Song, Couple, Long

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• [Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And everybody would go 'Yeah!

  Ray Brown

  Mean, Player, Piano

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• They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

  Ray Brown

  Believe, Mean, Scary

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• Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

  Ray Brown

  Depression, Cracks, Worst

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• A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

  Ray Brown

  Holiday, Yards, Buyers

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