Bass Quote by Gunther Schuller Download Open image “If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.” — Gunther Schuller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bass Bass player Bass players Drummer Ifs Jazz Mess Player
The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't like vocalists,… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz and otherwise, that you're exposed to. The challenge is to use all that in your own way, to personalize all that has come before you and all that is happening around you. To get the music the way… — Dave Kikoski Copy Share
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations,… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone.… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale! — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
The kind of fishing that I do is pretty much bass, trout or freshwater fishing. — Dale Steyn Copy Share Image
Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
That's what Joe Don Rooney and I do. He plays guitar and I play bass - and there's no reason to call it a… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
