Stephane Grappelli Quotes

• Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.

  Stephane Grappelli

  Book, Sleep, Writing

  Matt Glaser, Stephane Grappelli (1981). “Jazz Violin”, p.63, Oak Publications

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• Great improvisers are like priests...
  they are thinking only of their God

  Stephane Grappelli

  Thinking, Priests

  Matt Glaser, Stephane Grappelli (1981). “Jazz Violin”, p.63, Oak Publications

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• [Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

  Stephane Grappelli

  Violin, Jazz, Wells

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