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Famous Stan Getz Quotes
“You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.”
“I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?”
“A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.”
“We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.”
“I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.”
“I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.”
“I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.”
“I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.”
“I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.”
“Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.”
“If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.”
“I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.”