Miroslav Vitous Quotes
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I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't…
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The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.
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I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.
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I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.
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There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and…
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So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
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There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about…
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I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or…
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I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which…
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I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were…
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But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
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Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
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I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am…
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I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as…
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I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in…
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So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if…
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So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really…
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I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.
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I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.
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I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still…
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