JAZZ TIMES May 2003
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Jazz Quotes
"I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside." Clarke Terry"I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form"
"Blow your life through your horn."
"To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition."
"I know that I haven't invented anything myself, that I am only a mixture of countless influences, and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing."
"It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again." Eat, sleep and drink music. Arturo Sandoval
"Music should always be an adventure." Coleman Hawkins
"Life is a lot like jazz. . . it’s best when you improvise. . ." George Gershwin
"When I die I want them to play the BLACK AND CRAZY BLUES, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it."Roland Kirk
"If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t."Eddie Harris
"To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra."Cecil Taylor
"Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well." Christian McBride
"It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist......No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind...we're in it together." Chick Corea
"I am not a blues singer. I am not a jazz singer. I am not a country singer. But I am a singer who can sing the blues, who can sing jazz, who can sing country."Ray Charles
"Wrong is right."Thelonius Monk
"I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was."Paul Desmond
"Rather than simply say, I play jazz, I say I play music."Kenny Garret
"Music washes away the dust of every day life." Art Blakey
"If you got up on the bandstand at Minton’s and couldn’t play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked."Miles Davis
"Technique is the ability to translate your ideas into sound through your instrument. This is a comprehensive technique . . . a feeling for the keyboard that will allow you to transfer any emotional utterance into it. What has to happen is that you develop a comprehensive technique and then say, Forget that. I’m just going to be expressive through the piano."Bill Evans
"It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up!" Jaco Pastorius
"Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night." Count Basie
"The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody." Stan Getz
"I never hurt nobody but myself, and that ain’t nobody business but my own." Billie Holiday
"There is no such thing as a wrong note." Art Tatum
"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves." Herbie Hancock
"I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?'" Jackie Mclean
"I don't have a definition of jazz...You're just supposed to know it when you hear it." Thelonious Monk
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct." Duke Ellington
"Jazz is what I play for a living." Louis Armstrong's response to an interviewer when asked the question What Is Jazz?
"If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats." The name of a composition by Charles Mingus
"Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him." Louis Armstrong
"Pianists must be taught. If a man has no technique, if he has been self-taught, you'll hear it said that he has an open mind. Not true. He has only grooved himself." Oscar Peterson, responding to the recurring charge that he had "too much" technique
"We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can." Sonny Rollins explaining why he stopped performing for 2 years as he practiced daily on the Williamsburg bridge playing into the wind
"For his artistry, there can be no replacement." Dizzy Gillespie after hearing of the death of Clifford Brown
"When there's something we think could be better, we must make an effort to try and make it better." John Coltrane
"People sometimes think I'm difficult because I always say what's on my mind, and they can't always see what I see." Miles Davis
"Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good it does." Wynton Marsalis
"Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms." Keith Jarrett
"I made the tenor sax-there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else." Coleman Hawkins
"I am trying to play the natural feelings of a people.... Some of the people of the music which has been written will always be beautiful and immortal. Beethoven, Wagner and Bach are geniuses; no one can rob their work of the merit that's due it, but these men have not portrayed the people who are about us today, and the interpretation of these people is our future music." -Duke Ellington
..."Get around, be on the scene, play it clean, be seen, be keen, and be over eighteen." 1923- Willie "the Lion" Smith's advice to younger pianists
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of jazz- Jelly Roll Morton
When you see a jazz musician playing, you're looking at a pioneer, you're looking at an experimenter, you're looking at a scientist, you're looking at all those things because it's the creative process incarnate! Albert Murray
When they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball and jazz music. They're the three most beautiful things Americans have ever created. Gerald Early
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