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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
Herbie Hancock
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I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.
Oscar Peterson
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You have to be taught to hate.
Dave Brubeck
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There's a certain kind of time that's metronomic, that's correct, but doesn't want you want to dance. It doesn't make you want to move, and it doesn't make you want to play.
Fred Hersch
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The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
Alice Coltrane
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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. So you're the honky, she said, who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
Nina Simone
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Jazz is about being in the moment.
Herbie Hancock
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If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.
Oscar Peterson
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I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.
Mose Allison
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
Nina Simone
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I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.
Brad Mehldau
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My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.
Chick Corea
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Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may want to put a label on it, those who create it think of it just as music, and tend not to classify it.
Dave Brubeck
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Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.
Leonard Feather
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good
Nina Simone
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I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate it doesn't reflect my life experience.
Vijay Iyer
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Nina Simone
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To be young, gifted and black!
Nina Simone
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This is the last sentence of my dissertation: What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?
Vijay Iyer
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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
Nina Simone
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The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.
Nina Simone
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I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.
Cyrus Chestnut
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The secret of a great melody is a secret.
Dave Brubeck
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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
Nina Simone
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