“Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.” MomentsLawGamesForceChanceSecretMusicJazzAppearanceTechniqueOrganizedDisorderObscureConformOrchestraSpursObeyingVirtuosoSpur Of The Moment Author:Wanda Landowska
“A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records.” I CanTogetherChanceInterestingMusicBreakRecordsMusic IsWorking TogetherTouringBack TogetherTogether Again Author:John Lennon
“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.” IfsKnowsWantGivingMayMomentsHandsSoundChanceAcceptingMusicBirthMusicianJazzNotesLeavingTinyHolesImpressionIntenseBitterMelody Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.” YearsPlayKidsWorkChanceMusicSixDollsSix Year Olds Author:Billie Holiday
“Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.” MayChanceMusicMissingLateToo Late Author:Franz Liszt
“There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.” WayPlayOrderChanceMistakeMusicHavensSafeJazzMusicalTricksMaking MistakesRock N RollTake A ChancePlay Safe Author:Dave Brubeck
“We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.” TryingMindDifferentChanceMusicJazzMusicalSomething NewVentureTake A Chance Author:Horace Silver
“The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.” ChanceMusicWonderfulJazzWillingnessWonderful ThingsTake A Chance Author:Madeleine Peyroux
“For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.” ChanceMusicJazzTake A ChanceSpontaneity Author:Dave Kikoski