"It was never supposed to be a hit.……" — Paul Desmond
"It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,"
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16 Quotes by Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond has 16 quotes on this site.
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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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Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys…
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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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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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I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything…
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I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm…
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take…
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There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum…
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What's really good is African drum music.
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Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says…
— Tony Bennett
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum,…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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Strike up the drum and march courageously.
— Christopher Marlowe
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In our Army every soldier must care about his job. Often- if the duty seems menial or hum-drum- it is…
— William O. Wooldridge
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We cannot focus upon the weaknesses of one another and evoke strengths. You cannot focus upon the things that you…
— Esther Hicks
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My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.
— Chris Daughtry
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