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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
Nina Simone
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I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.
Paul Bley
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Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.
Jon Weber
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It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
Herbie Hancock
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If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.
Cyrus Chestnut
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My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.
Mose Allison
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Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.
Mary Lou Williams
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Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.
Count Basie
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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
Herbie Hancock
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It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
Nina Simone
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
Nina Simone
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I was always willing to say, Let's see what happens, when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .
Count Basie
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There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.
Diana Krall
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I just have a lot off different influences.
Mose Allison
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So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.
Marian McPartland
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Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.
Dave Brubeck
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I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.
Diana Krall
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We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.
Randy Weston
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I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.
Mose Allison
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In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
Herbie Hancock
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I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.
Diana Krall
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People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
Abdullah Ibrahim
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The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
Mose Allison
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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
Herbie Hancock
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