"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned,……" — Paul Desmond

"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."

— Paul Desmond

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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…
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and…
I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's…
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys…
We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and…
It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,
I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and…
We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.
I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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