Given Quote by Apollo Robbins Download Open image “I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.” — Apollo Robbins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Given Improvise Jazz Performer
Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
“It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.” — Ted Agon Copy Share Image
I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively. — Mulgrew Miller Copy Share Image
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art. — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record. — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to… — J. Richard Hackman Copy Share Image
When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front of us… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
Think about it this way - if you have five senses, and they're all feeding into one place, kind of like a bottleneck, then… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You can be… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
I can analyze how I do things, but the actual doing it - when the synapses just start firing - I can't explain. — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
I've taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life. — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
Usually I'll tell someone, for example, like their watch. If they have a watch on, I might say, 'In three minutes, I'd like to… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
Usually, when people watch magic, there are two levels: the people who walk away accepting that there are things they don't know, and the… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
One time, I had a guy, when I was performing at Caesar's Palace, and during the course of the show, I offered him an… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
I was at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, and I was performing at a show there. Jimmy Carter was going to be coming through… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
In the same way that a film director would use a film lens to blur out a certain item or use a spotlight, I… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
When I became a teen, I ran into a friend at a magic shop who took me under his wing. I started reading up… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
At the zoo, people would gather around the railway to see the snakes being fed, and my brothers would walk around the group, taking… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
