Around the world Quote by Eldar Djangirov

“I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.” quote by Eldar Djangirov — Download Open image

“I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.”

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I grew up in Kansas City from when I was about two years old to my mid-teens. Kansas City at the time was an…

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My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My…

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Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human…

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When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started.

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I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and learning as much vocabulary as possible. It's kind of like writing. It's kind of like writing because the more you read, the more you hear people describe things. The more you soak in, as far as…

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Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire…

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The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

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My dad, was, by trade, he had a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He's a huge, huge jazz fan. He used to travel all the…

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Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

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"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it.…

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