Expenses Quote by Stan Getz Download Open image “I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.” — Stan Getz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expenses Inspirational Jazz Jazz and life Jazz music Life Music Perfection
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished. — Dia Frampton Copy Share Image
The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
Maybe when it comes to my music, or my performances, I'm a little more aggressive because I want everything to be perfect. But not… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back. — Ronnie O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.' — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success. — Enya Copy Share Image
Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
People think that I play effortlessly. I remember doing a record date with Bill Evans and afterwards he said to me, you make it… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify… — Peter Cohan Copy Share Image
I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image