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Music Quotes by Stan Getz
- It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with…
- My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled…
- I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...
- When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never…
- I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to…
- I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.
- You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
- The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.
- A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
- We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.
- I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.
- I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.
- Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.
- You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
- I like to hear the brass vibrate in the sound, not the reed. I like a dark sound, which is contrary to what just about…
- Interaction is what jazz music is all about.
- The whole thing you're taught in jazz is the spontaneity of it. That's what I really love about jazz.
- When you work with a good composer, you don't tell him what to write. If he knows your playing, he will do what he thinks…
- I like to play totally by ear, knowing the basic structure, of course.
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