Music Quotes - Page 40

• Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

  Charles Mingus

  Jazz, Emotion, Language

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

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, Glasses, Jazz

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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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• To keep creating you have to be about change.

  Miles Davis

  Creating, Jazz

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• After two takes you're imitating yourself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Two, Jazz, Imitating

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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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• There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

  Bill Frisell

  Play, Saxophone, Jazz

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

  Ella Fitzgerald

  People, Stories, Fabulous

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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

  Thinking, People, Playing Jazz

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

  Kenny Garrett

  Play, Jazz

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• Love is sweeping the country.

  Ira Gershwin

  Country, Love Is, Jazz

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

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Encouragement, Cancer

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• I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

  Steve Lacy

  Old Things, Sound, Jazz

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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

  Dance, Long, Jazz

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• Always pack your uniform on top.

  Freddie Green

  Uniforms, Jazz, Packs

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• I don't dig staying in one groove.

  Chico Hamilton

  Stay Strong, Jazz, Groove

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

  Chico Hamilton

  Order, Suffering, Degrees

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