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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.
Brad Mehldau
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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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We don't know the power that's within our own bodies
Dave Brubeck
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
Nina Simone
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Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.
Robert Glasper
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Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.
Chick Corea
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There are a million good tunes.
Marian McPartland
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Rob Mullins is headed for status as an international celebrity.
Leonard Feather
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If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben Ratliff asked it, and he came up with aesthetic categories. That's not what I would say. What's left are communities who make music together, or among whom music circulates. That's it.
Vijay Iyer
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As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison
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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
Herbie Hancock
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I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.
Dave Brubeck
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I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.
Michel Petrucciani
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I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!
Fats Waller
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
Herbie Hancock
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If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.
Kenny Werner
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Herbie Hancock
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We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.
Herbie Hancock
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Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to be heard, even if it's seldom heeded. After all the temporary influences that once directed the course of history have vanished, great art survives and continues to speak to each generation.
Dave Brubeck
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The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
Ahmad Jamal
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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
Nina Simone
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I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
Dave Brubeck
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
Nina Simone
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Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.
Kenny Werner
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