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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.
Dave Brubeck
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Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.
Robert Glasper
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
Herbie Hancock
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With electronic music it's often a little more hidden - the relationship between gesture and sound - which makes it confounding for audiences. But the ingredients of electronic music are the same ingredients of nonelectronic music.
Vijay Iyer
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What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.
Vijay Iyer
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I think what music can offer is the feeling of forward motion, also the feeling of accumulation of information, of sensations, of feelings, like we're going somewhere. When I say 'feel like,' I don't mean to suggest that it's not real, but that it's the work of the imagination, which is what narrative is.
Vijay Iyer
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Electronic technology has been a part of music making and music listening for a century. We always treat it like it's new, and cutting edge, but it's actually omnipresent, so we should just treat it as part of the arsenal today.
Vijay Iyer
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I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.
Vijay Iyer
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If you look at my collaborations, it is very much in line with all these others in the sense that it is a building of community, particularly among artists of color. This is what I learned from the example of elder African-American artists, which is where it is all coming from to refuse to be silenced.
Vijay Iyer
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It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.
Vijay Iyer
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My music is always called cerebral. It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.
Vijay Iyer
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To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act.
Vijay Iyer
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I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.
Brad Mehldau
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I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
Cecil Taylor
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My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.
Chick Corea
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Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
Herbie Hancock
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I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.
McCoy Tyner
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
Herbie Hancock
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Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation without woman. She is principal, a powerful energy. She is first.
Alice Coltrane
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My first memories of life were in rehearsal thats why I can sleep through anything.
Robert Glasper
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
Nina Simone
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I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.
Mose Allison
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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
Cecil Taylor
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It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same.
Robert Glasper
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