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Jazz Pianist Inspirational Quotes (430)

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Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
Kenny Werner
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Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much
Mose Allison
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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep
Nina Simone
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Lately I feel being political is also about the company I keep and the ideas I put forward. When I do a curate a program or do a workshop, I want to make it intergenerational I want to have women on the faculty and also among the students.
Vijay Iyer
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I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
Nina Simone
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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
Nina Simone
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I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
Mose Allison
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
Herbie Hancock
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One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
Mary Lou Williams
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The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
Abdullah Ibrahim
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I was just born to swing, that's all.
Lil Hardin Armstrong
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
Oscar Peterson
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A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
Herbie Hancock
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I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
Cecil Taylor
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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
Nina Simone
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You've got to create the space, then fill it.
Chick Corea
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The sense of having to be the best at everything gets in the way of anybody doing anything. I put all that aside it's not worth thinking about when I'm there. My agenda as an artist doesn't go away when I teach. It actually gets intensified.
Vijay Iyer
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Keep on listening & tapping your feet.
Count Basie
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I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.
Ahmad Jamal
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I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.
Chick Corea
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So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
Diana Krall
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
Nina Simone
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It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.
Chick Corea
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I always wonder what drives us as Artists.
Diana Krall
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