Home / Quotes / Quote by Paul Smoker

Quote by Paul Smoker

“I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.”

Author

Paul Smoker

Paul Smoker, born on May 8, 1941, and passed away on May 14, 2016. His profession and category are unknown, and his life story is limited in information. more

“I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college professor, and yet I did all those things and I did them well. I put out some records in the 1980's and 1990's that changed the way some trumpet players played.”

Way Wells Careers Records Player Changed College Musician Jazz Professors Classical Music Jazz Music Trumpets Jazz Musician Classical Musicians College Professors

Author:Paul Smoker

“If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.”

Ifs Knows Certain Audience Stage Talent Like You Theater Crowds Rough Apollo Expletives

Author:Don Alias

“Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.”

Want Wanted School Black Class Growing Up Study Middle Particular Mom Music Is Doctors Medicine Profession Lawyer Eras Middle Class Want Me Playing Music Black Family

Author:Don Alias

“I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.”

Play Used Stuff Growing Up Streets New York Brother Grew Grew Up My Brother Subway

Author:Don Alias

“I grew up in New York. We were all diversified, as far as music was concerned. I grew up liking just about everything. So I tried to incorporate that into my playing, although the original school where I came from was Afro-Cuban music. But I liked all kinds of music -- I tried to bring that into everything.”

Kind School New York Grew Grew Up Concerned Originals All Kinds Cuban Afros Cuban Music

Author:Don Alias

“Then, on my way to California, I decided to stop in New York to do some research. I couldn't leave, because that's where the music was!”

Way New York Research Decided My Way California

Author:Don Alias

Quote by Paul Smoker

Author

You May Also Like