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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
Nina Simone
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It's not instant composing it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.
Lennie Tristano
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A successful relationship is not about two people staring into each other's eyes, it's about two people looking ahead together. I think in order to construct, it's not just, you do this, then I'll do this. It's more like, let's work on these ideas together, and just move together, with these ideas. It does create a balance.
Vijay Iyer
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
Earl Hines
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.
Nina Simone
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Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.
Hazel Scott
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
Nina Simone
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The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
Mose Allison
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I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.
Hazel Scott
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So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
Mose Allison
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Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
Hazel Scott
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I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.
Count Basie
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There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
Dave Brubeck
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Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
Herbie Hancock
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I'm not inspired by songwriting at all that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.
Mose Allison
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The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.
Herbie Hancock
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
Nina Simone
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I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
Ahmad Jamal
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
Nina Simone
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
Nina Simone
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Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.
Robert Glasper
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Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.
McCoy Tyner
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My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work was almost carnal, so to actually play for him was earth-shattering for me.
Diana Krall
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Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
Art Tatum
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