"The value of jazz still has to be……" — Stan Getz
"The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul."
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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 Clarified Quotes
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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the…
— Thomas Berry
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Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.
— Chip Kidd
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When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have…
— R. A. Lafferty
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The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified…
— William Jones
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Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly…
— Gaston Bachelard
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What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic…
— Ernesto Zedillo
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Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited…
— Hjalmar Branting
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Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences…
— Charles Krauthammer
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