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Jazz Quotes by Paul Desmond
- The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
- Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
- I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
- Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
- I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and…
- We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.
More Jazz Quotes
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker
- And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned… — Steven Adler