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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.
Abdullah Ibrahim
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Nina Simone
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I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.
Marian McPartland
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I try to practice with my life.
Herbie Hancock
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
Nina Simone
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I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.
Mose Allison
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Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
Teddy Wilson
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Jeri Brown has it all - adventurous spirit, superb musicianship, and technique to spare.
Fred Hersch
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Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.
Marian McPartland
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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock
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There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.
Shirley Horn
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
Oscar Peterson
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I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.
Robert Glasper
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I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.
Cecil Taylor
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To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
Cecil Taylor
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It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.
Jelly Roll Morton
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
Oscar Peterson
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The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.
Billy Taylor
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Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.
Herbie Hancock
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The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good now it's over...next!
Diana Krall
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If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.
Fats Waller
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Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.
Shirley Horn
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I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.
Herbie Hancock
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When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.
Herbie Hancock
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