Jazz Quote by Paul Desmond Download Open image “Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.” — Paul Desmond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Learning Taught Writing
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way,… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. — John Milius Copy Share Image
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be… — William Hughes Mearns Copy Share Image
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. — Craig Claiborne 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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