John Kao Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen.

  John Kao

  Communication, Sea, Creative

• Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be coaxed out of them, it has nothing to do with the phases of the moon or even how they feel that day. They go on stage and start playing. Being creative is their job.

  John Kao

  Teacher, Jobs, Creativity

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

• Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

  John Kao

  Skills, Tunes, Example

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

• Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the other musicians and that the audience enjoys. You cannot do that without first acquiring skills.

  John Kao

  Skills, Want, Firsts

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

• Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

  John Kao

  Thinking, Play, Jazz

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

• Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

  John Kao

  Risk, Musician, Tunes

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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