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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
Nina Simone
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I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.
Mose Allison
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.
Dave Brubeck
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In our country, the problem we have in our public school system across the country is that music and arts are on the bottom of the pole, if it's there at all. So the kids aren't exposed to music. I must speak to the music they hear at home too.
Ramsey Lewis
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I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.
Chick Corea
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I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
Herbie Hancock
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be
Nina Simone
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And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz stands for freedom.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
Ahmad Jamal
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I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.
Pinetop Perkins
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I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
Chick Corea
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Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man
Abdullah Ibrahim
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My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
Herbie Hancock
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Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
Cecil Taylor
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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
Herbie Hancock
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You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!
Art Tatum
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It's not what you play, it's how you play it.
Mary Lou Williams
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I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
Nina Simone
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If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.
Hazel Scott
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
Nina Simone
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If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it at different times and different places, then I feel it's worth making a song out of.
Mose Allison
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It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.
Dave Brubeck
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My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.
McCoy Tyner
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