"Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate……" — Horace Silver
"Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it."
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9 Quotes by Horace Silver
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I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody…
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Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical…
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They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes,…
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Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
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I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I…
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We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at…
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I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.
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I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played…
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of…
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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them…
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A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad…
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I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff…
— Luke Bryan
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so…
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
— Michael Chabon
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be…
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