Jazz Quotes - Page 17

• I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Lasts, Gimmicks

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• You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Knows

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• If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Crafts, Want

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• I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

  Roy Eldridge

  Music, Men, Names

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Should Have

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Mean, Doe

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• I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Should Have, Done

  "The Duke Ellington Reader".

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• I expect the audience to come up to my level.

  Don Ellis

  Music, Levels, Come Up

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• To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

  Don Ellis

  Music, Thinking, Artist

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• The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

  Barry Finnerty

  Music, Challenges, Spontaneity

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• When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, Block, Holiday

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• The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, People, Stories

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• What we hear is the quality of our listening.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Listening, Quality

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• If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Audience, Ifs

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• If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

  Pete Fountain

  Music, Thinking, People

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• Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

  Erroll Garner

  Music, Play, Something New

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• Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

  Kenny Garrett

  Music, Play

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• Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

  George Gershwin

  Music, Best Things, Gershwin

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• Love is sweeping the country.

  Ira Gershwin

  Music, Country, Love Is

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Music, Encouragement

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• We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Records, Documents

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• I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Lying, Believe

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• The true artform is being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Humans, Human Beings

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• Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Art, Giving

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• You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Textbooks

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