Musical Quotes - Page 34

• Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

  Ahmad Alaadeen

  Music, Race, America

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• Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Memorable, Dust

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• The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.

  Billy Taylor

  Music, Rocks, People

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• This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"

  Bob Brookmeyer

  Music, Play, Albums

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• The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.

  Bobby Hutcherson

  Music, Waiting, Jazz

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• My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.

  Booker Little

  Music, Stress, Emotional

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• Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

  Brian Blade

  Music, Thinking, People

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• Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

  Cannonball Adderley

  Music, Mind, Facts

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• What's interesting about a person without problems?

  Carla Bley

  Music, Interesting, Jazz

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• Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

  Cecil Taylor

  Music, Jazz Improvisation, Ability

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• Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

  Cecil Taylor

  Music, Song, Fool

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• Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Falling In Love, Crazy

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• In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

  Charlie Haden

  Music, Thinking, Creating

  FaceBook post by Charlie Haden from Feb 15, 2015

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• I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, I Like You, Jazz

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• Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

  Danny Barker

  Music, Creativity, Creative Space

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• Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Want, Jazz

  Doug Ramsey, Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, Paul Caulfield (2005). “Take five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond”, Parkside Pubns

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• I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Jazz, Pillow

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• Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Men, Serious

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• It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Taken, Play

  Quoted in N Hentoff Jazz Is (1978).

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• All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

  Don Pullen

  Music, Use, Jazz

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• Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

  Cornel West

  Music, Needs, Jazz

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• It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Play, Jazz

  New York Herald Tribune, July 09, 1961.

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• It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Lying, Tin Pan Alley

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Children, Mind

  "Music Is My Mistress". Book by Duke Ellington, 1973.

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  Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Occupation, Jazz

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