Playing Jazz Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

  Stan Getz

  Art, Piano, Years

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• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Success, Hard Work, Writing

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• The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

  John Lewis

  Music, Rewards, Musical

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• Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

  Toots Thielemans

  Music, Alive, Generations

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• I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize each other according to the class they belong to. If they are punk-rocker kids from the neighborhood, they are going form a band. If they happen to be musicians that are going to play in pubs and restaurants, they are going to recognize each other, form a band and play together. If it's about musicians that are playing jazz and are going to jazz festivals, for e.g., then they are going to meet and work together.

  Vlatko Stefanovski

  Kids, Class, Play

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• When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time. You see what they're giving you, so you try to write back to that, and then they play with that, and you get a sense of what is going on. That's just a natural way in which TV series usually work.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Writing, Play, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

  Stephen Bruner

  Growing Up, Impact, Bigs

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Guy

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• If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

  Tobin Bell

  Rocks, Play, Want

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• Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.

  Joshua Roman

  Guitar, Long, Age

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• I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.

  Steve Winwood

  School, Sunday, College

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Fall, Time Flies, Ego

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• Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

  Art Blakey

  Good Times, Having A Good Time, Knows

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• I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

  Herbie Hancock

  Years, Jazz, Classical Music

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• I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

  Lenny Breau

  Music, Running, Records

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• I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the "Twelfth Street Rag" and those kinds of things. Then I got to hanging around with a bunch of guys starting to playing jazz. We'd go from one place to the other and take our instruments, just perform for free.

  Papa John Creach

  Guy, Rags, Stuff

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• I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

  Lester Bangs

  Hate, Stanley, Jazz

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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