"I came from an era when we didn't……" — Stan Getz
"I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got."
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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 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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If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
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More Amplified Quotes
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Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
— Eric Clapton
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to…
— Eric Clapton
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The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication…
— Max Delbruck
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The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by…
— Fritjof Capra
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Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though…
— Virginia Graham
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The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human…
— Sterling W Sill
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Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.
— Winona Ryder
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The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter…
— Unknown Author
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Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to…
— Vannevar Bush
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The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up…
— Frank Herbert
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