"We used to get on planes, and they'd……" — Paul Desmond
"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 later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."
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Paul Desmond
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16 Quotes by Paul Desmond
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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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Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys…
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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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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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