"My life is music, and in some vague,……" — Stan Getz
"My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life."
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35 Quotes by Stan Getz
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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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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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If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
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