"I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often……" — Stan Getz
"I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life."
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller.…
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My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut…
— Stan Getz
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're…
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Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story.…
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The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the…
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Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950…
— Ian Bogost
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You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of…
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I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively…
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Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research…
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If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.
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