Jazz Quote by Paul Desmond Download Open image “I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.” — Paul Desmond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Jazz music Music Week
When practicing, it's great to break a part down into its different elements, start slowly, and then try to build up the speed until… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
At times I've played through extreme pain or not practiced for weeks and tried to go out there and play. — Jalen Ramsey Copy Share Image
I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to… — Angelique Kerber Copy Share Image
... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ... — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
As far as practicing is concerned, I usually try to do one to two hours a day. It isn't good to practice too much,… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
With all the travelling and performing I've been doing, it's hard to find time to practice! But seriously, I probably did most of my… — McCoy Tyner Copy Share Image
I try to practice hard every week, so when I get a chance to go in the game I play hard. — Demaryius Thomas Copy Share Image
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
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