"As far as playing jazz, no other art……" — Stan Getz
"As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction."
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35 Quotes by Stan Getz
Stan Getz has 35 quotes on this site.
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The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to…
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It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And…
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You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my…
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My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut…
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I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...
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Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like…
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The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter…
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I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
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I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the…
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I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.
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Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that…
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Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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