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Re: Famous quotes from jazz artists

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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