Music Quotes - Page 39

• Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

  Sid Caesar

  Beautiful, Brother, Jazz

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• Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  Cab Calloway

  Clubs, Cotton, Jazz

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• You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass.

  Russell Malone

  Two, Littles, Rooms

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• An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  Van Cliburn

  Artist, Might, Jazz

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• The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

  Nat King Cole

  Funny, Talking, People

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• The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

  Ornette Coleman

  Jazz, Argument, Pleasure

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• I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

  Chuck Mangione

  Believe, Jazz, Don't Believe

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• I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

  Chuck Mangione

  Hands, Years, Numbers

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• Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

  John Coltrane

  Fun, Guitar, Serious

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• Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

  Herbie Mann

  Opportunity, Play, People

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• Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, Glasses, Jazz

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• If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

  Herbie Mann

  Play, House, Want

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• When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.

  Debbie Davies

  Musician, Jazz

  "Between Sets with Debbie Davies". Interview with Karl Stober, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

  Herbie Mann

  Jazz, Sand, Kicks

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• To keep creating you have to be about change.

  Miles Davis

  Creating, Jazz

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• Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

  Branford Marsalis

  Jazz, Starting

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• My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

  Branford Marsalis

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

  Miles Davis

  Confused, Nice, Men

  " Wynton Marsalis: trumpeting controversial ideas of classicism" by Philip Clark, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2015.

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• So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

  Miles Davis

  Blue, Done, Records

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• I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

  Paul Desmond

  Father, Age, Violin

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

  Billy Eckstine

  Crafts, Want, Jazz

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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

  Men, Names, Firsts

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

  Duke Ellington

  Mean, Doe, Jazz

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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

  Should Have, Done, Littles

  "The Duke Ellington Reader".

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

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Block, Holiday, Apollo

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