"I like to hear the brass vibrate in……" — Stan Getz
"I like to hear the brass vibrate in the sound, not the reed. I like a dark sound, which is contrary to what just about everybody else is looking for."
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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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More Brass Quotes
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
— Thomas Beecham
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I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the…
— George Clooney
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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some…
— Mark Twain
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Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains…
— Ray Liotta
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded…
— Betty Smith
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At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from…
— Jesse L. Greenstein
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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them…
— John Cotton
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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
— Lord Chesterfield
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