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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
Herbie Hancock
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
Nina Simone
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
Nina Simone
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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
Nina Simone
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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
Nina Simone
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Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
Nina Simone
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The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.
Diana Krall
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As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
Herbie Hancock
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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
Herbie Hancock
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As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.
Marian McPartland
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The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
Dave Brubeck
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Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.
Eddie Heywood
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People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
Herbie Hancock
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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
Nina Simone
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
Nina Simone
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Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.
Mulgrew Miller
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The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.
Diana Krall
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The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.
Marian McPartland
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Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.
Horace Silver
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Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.
Oscar Peterson
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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
Hazel Scott
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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
Herbie Hancock
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It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind we're in it together.
Chick Corea
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
Nina Simone
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