Jazz Quotes - Page 18

• One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Reason, Process

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• They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Dance, Long

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• If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Play, Might

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• Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Beautiful, Beautiful Words

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• When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Tunes, Kind

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• Always pack your uniform on top.

  Freddie Green

  Music, Uniforms, Packs

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• Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

  Charlie Haden

  Music, Art, Creative

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• I don't dig staying in one groove.

  Chico Hamilton

  Music, Stay Strong, Groove

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• 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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