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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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But I don't have anything to prove. My reputation is what it is. It seems that a lot of gay men are put off by jazz because either they don't believe it speaks to their own experience or they believe the genre itself to be somehow intolerant of homosexuality.
Fred Hersch
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If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
Count Basie
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
Herbie Hancock
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[The producer told me:] We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does. Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.
Mose Allison
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You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.
Diana Krall
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In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel unworthy.
Kenny Werner
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The minute you make a mistake - that's improvisation!
Barry Harris
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I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.
Chick Corea
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I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
Dave Brubeck
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I don't like to go to strange places.
Nina Simone
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I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
Dave Brubeck
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All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
Mose Allison
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I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.
Herbie Hancock
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The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
Herbie Hancock
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Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.
Count Basie
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When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.
Dave Brubeck
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He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.
Oscar Peterson
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The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.
Mose Allison
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I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.
Herbie Hancock
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I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual, it's meditation, it's Buddhism, it's praying, it's all these things.
Robert Glasper
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
Herbie Hancock
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I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.
Teddy Wilson
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