"Complexity can be a trap. You can have……" — Paul Desmond
"Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem."
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16 Quotes by Paul Desmond
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I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what…
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The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and…
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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
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I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
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Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
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Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's…
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We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and…
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It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,
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I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and…
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We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.
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I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.
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I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
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