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Jazz Musician Inspirational Quotes (6947)

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Balancing is hard. I've lost roles that I really wanted because I had set up a tour. I cancelled tours to do roles before. But I have to find the time to make that up to my audience. I made a commitment to them.
Jill Scott
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I do still have dips of confidence or [can think] everything I do is rubbish.
David Toop
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I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.
Ben Webster
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Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
Herbie Hancock
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I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.
Daryl Stuermer
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The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
Artie Shaw
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We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
J. J. Johnson
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I had a different upbringing - my dad worked three jobs. You know, it wasn't as easy as they had it.
Robert Davi
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Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
Allen Toussaint
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The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.
Allen Toussaint
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As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
Allen Toussaint
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As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.
Allen Toussaint
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My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
Allen Toussaint
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To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.
Neal Barnard
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When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.
Mike Patton
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I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.
Ray Charles
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Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing, because I didn't feel any pressure. I can enjoy myself and probably play better. Sometimes when I play, people expect something of me, and I'm not always able to to that. Quite often. So I get totaly nervous
Allan Holdsworth
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I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.
Allan Holdsworth
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I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.
McCoy Tyner
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Wayne Shorter
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To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
Wayne Shorter
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In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.
Wayne Shorter
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No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
Wayne Shorter
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