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Author: Clarineteer
Date: 2014-07-24 02:26
I have read many famous quotes from jazz artists but my favorite was the day that Charles Mingus died. Miles Davis was in the studio recording an LP and was called to the phone. He was told that Charles had just died and his response was "how dare he."
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Author: GBK
Date: 2014-07-24 02:42
Prior to being wheeled into surgery at UCLA Medical Center for a malignant brain tumor, the nurse asked Buddy Rich if he was allergic to anything.
Buddy Rich responded, "Only two things - country and western."
...GBK
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Author: cyclopathic
Date: 2014-07-24 04:42
"Maybe I should have stayed in Cleveland" he told reporter Tony Mastroianni.
"I was successful - had a good band job, was making good money, in love with a girl I wanted to marry. I was nineteen and had to make a decision. I decided I had to follow the road. Maybe I' have been happy here. Or maybe I'd have been miserable wondering what I could have done. I guess I might have been miserable anywhere."
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Author: as9934
Date: 2014-07-24 07:05
"Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise" George Gershwin
"Jazz stands for freedom" Dave Brubeck
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Author: ruben
Date: 2014-07-24 11:14
My favourite: the great drunken wit, Zoot Sims, was asked what it had been like doing a gig with Benny Goodman in Russia. His answer: "Any gig with Benny is like being in Russia." Also, asked how he could play so well when he was drunk, Zoot replied: "That's because I practise when I'm drunk."
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Author: Roys_toys
Date: 2014-07-25 12:28
I remember reading long ago that when Lil Hardin ( Armstrong ) asked what key they were going to play in, the answer was " you'll hear two stamps on the floor, on the third stamp you start "
Music making by adults ! No need for childish things !
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Author: Bruno
Date: 2014-07-25 21:34
Al Cohn and company were playing in Rome and Al came down to breakfast a little worse for wear after a rousing evening before. As he stumbled into the dining room, one of the other players, said,
"Al ! How are you feeling this morning?"
Al Cohn said, "Like a million lire!"
Artie Shaw said, "Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music."
Paul Desmond was dating a show girl, who was stolen away by a corporate type.
Desmond commented, "This is the way the world ends, not with a whim but a banker."
George Gershwin said of Ethel Merman: "She can make a bad song good, a good song great, and the man in the third balcony will hear every word!"
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Author: ruben
Date: 2014-07-25 23:06
Bruno: I will quote myself, because nobody else quotes me: Frank Sinatra could take a sad song and make it bitter.
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Author: Bruno
Date: 2014-07-25 23:28
Gerry Mulligan on Chet Baker's complaint that he didn't know the chords (to a tune they were about to play);
"You know the chords very well. You just don't know their names."
Chet: "Well, give me my first note."
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Author: Bill G
Date: 2014-07-26 23:03
A non-jazz musician, but an uninhibited musician nonetheless, Maria Callas described the proper way to breathe as "from hair to hair."
Artie Shaw said: "Bennie Goodman plays clarinet; I play music."
Bill Gamble
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Author: afmdoclaw
Date: 2014-07-27 04:20
Miles once asked Trane about why his solos were so long and Trane said that sometimes he didn't know how to stop. Miles replied "Takes da horn outs jour mouth".
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Author: nbclarinet
Date: 2014-07-27 05:25
"Jazz means I dare you" - Wayne Shorter
"Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself" - Miles Davis
"If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him" - Wes Montgomery
There are so many good quotes
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Author: Bruno
Date: 2014-07-27 08:31
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know." Louis Armstrong
"Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise." George Gershwin
“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.” Thelonious Monk
“Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.”
― Keith Jarrett
"I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch." Pepper Adams
"Jazz washes away the dust of every day life." Art Blakey
"We never play anything the same way once." Count Basie
"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." Dizzy Gillespie
"Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions." Johnny Griffin
"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk." Steve Lacy
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." Thelonious Monk
"I never practice my guitar... from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat." Wes Montgomery
"What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on." Gerry Mulligan
"No one is original. Everyone is derivative." Sonny Rollins
"You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!" Art Tatum
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Author: PeterinToronto ★2017
Date: 2014-07-27 22:57
*LOVED the Wes Montgomery quote, laughed out loud! Does anyone know who it was that said something like "If you have to tell me you is, you ain't" ? A famous jazz singer I think...
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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2014-07-27 23:05
If a classical player is really playing, a jazz player will have to respect him.
Tony
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2014-07-27 23:51
One of my favorites:
"I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I’ve completely rejected. I just don’t see it as an idiomatic thing any more…To me, if jazz is anything, it’s a process, and maybe a verb, but it’s not a thing. It’s a form that demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn’t have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J."
-Pat Metheny
Eric
PS. (fwiw, I think of jazz similarly, though I'll probably always define it from the perspective of the jazz musician, rather than 'objectively'-- for me, being a jazz musician is a state of musical being, or an orientation towards music as a whole. Another caveat: I tend to emphasize blues far more than Pat, though for me the Blues is a musical system, not a style or a form).
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Author: afmdoclaw
Date: 2014-07-30 06:04
“If you transcribe me, you're my student, but if you transcribed who I've transcribed, you're my peer.”
Michael Brecker
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Author: Buster
Date: 2014-07-30 06:28
"Just because you’re not a drummer doesn’t mean you don’t have to keep time."
-Thelonious Monk
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