Jazz Quotes - Page 15

• Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

  Chico Hamilton

  Music, Order, Suffering

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• If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Music, Teacher, Taught

  "Song: 'Getting to Know You'". "The King and I". Musical by Oscar Hammerstein II, 1956.

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• You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Music, Dream, Ifs

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

  Lionel Hampton

  Music, Thinking, Talking

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• Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

  Lionel Hampton

  Music, Men, Long

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• Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

  Lionel Hampton

  Music, Hands, Wife

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• It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

  Lionel Hampton

  Music, Clothes, Dresses

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• The true artform is being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Humans, Human Beings

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• It is people's hearts that move the age.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Moving, Heart

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• In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Art, Choices

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• Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Infinity, Life Is

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2016

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• Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Inspiration, Moments

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• Let the music speak for itself.

  Roy Hargrove

  Music, Speak, Music Speaks

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• There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

  Barry Harris

  Music, Proud

  Interview with Carla Rupp, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• You must own it to play it.

  Roy Haynes

  Music, Play

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• I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

  Skitch Henderson

  Music, Artist

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• We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

  Woody Herman

  Music, Cutting, Boys

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• When you sing, always tell the truth.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Telling The Truth

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• I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Hunger

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

  Charlie Hunter

  Music, Trios, Sound

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• Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

  Charlie Hunter

  Music, Thinking, Style

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• If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

  Milt Jackson

  Music, Four, Chorus

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• What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Music, Thinking, Kill Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

  Ahmad Jamal

  Music, Mean, Practice

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• Once you discover that you can, then you must.

  Al Jarreau

  Music

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