"The whole thing you're taught in jazz is……" — Stan Getz
"The whole thing you're taught in jazz is the spontaneity of it. That's what I really love about jazz."
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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 Jazz Quotes
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What we play is life.
— Louis Armstrong
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
— Louis Armstrong
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
— Louis Armstrong
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You blows who you is.
— Louis Armstrong
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
— Louis Armstrong
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
— Lester Bangs
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I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything…
— Travis Barker
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
— Travis Barker
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
— Warren G. Bennis
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I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I…
— Steven Adler
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