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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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There are a lot of people on the lowest rung of Jacob's Ladder, and we must somehow reach down, give them a hand, and make them want to climb. A little really good music never hurt anyone. And when people are given good music they can grow spiritually and even discover they like it.
Dave Brubeck
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I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.
Count Basie
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Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.
Kenny Werner
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My concern with this approach is that music becomes a substance devoid of people. It's a consumer model of what music is: subjects listening to objects. For me, music is subjects listening to subjects. It's about intersubjectivity.
Vijay Iyer
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
Nina Simone
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I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.
Chick Corea
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
Count Basie
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Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.
Barry Harris
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I'm not much of a storyteller with words!
Brad Mehldau
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You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
Cecil Taylor
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Jazz music is a style, not compositions any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
Jelly Roll Morton
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Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.
McCoy Tyner
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
Nina Simone
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I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
Herbie Hancock
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I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
Earl Hines
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
Oscar Peterson
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I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.
Horace Silver
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Jazz is not background music.
Horace Silver
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I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music.
McCoy Tyner
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It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.
Count Basie
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I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.
Hazel Scott
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I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.
Mose Allison
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I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.
Erroll Garner
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