“People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.” PeopleLongSometimesMusicFiveFansLong TimeJazzSeconds Author:Pat Metheny
“I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.” IfsTryingBlackPoorMusicDiscoveryDecidedJazzWho I Am Author:Ornette Coleman
“I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.” IfsWayWantYearsDoePlayMusicPicksTwentiesJazzWhat You WantFifteenMonkJazz MusicJazz MusicianPlaying Jazz Author:Thelonious Monk
“At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.” PeopleFirstsBelieveIdeasStoriesSpeakI BelieveMusicFeetFashionBeatsHappeningsStructureJazzNotesInstanceUnexpectedRejectsDestroyingNew IdeasShockingMonkJazz MusicPretextIllogicalDestroying Everything Author:Thelonious Monk
“It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.” SpeakLanguageMusicWonderfulMusic IsJazzSentencesScalesWonderful ThingsChordsHornsJazz MusicAlphabet Author:Stan Getz
“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.” WayFactsLife IsMusicSpringPerfectionJazzDrivenMysteriousExpensesSubconsciousVagueJazz MusicJazz And Life Book:Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments Source: Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments
“The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.” HumansStillsMatterPlayVoiceCan DoMusicJazzComplicatedMelodyConceptionTranslationsJazz MusicPlaying MusicSaxophoneHuman VoicePlaying Jazz Author:Stan Getz
“When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.” PeopleWantPlayBeautifulDiesBlackMusicCrazyJazzSmokeBagsPotJazz MusicBeautiful PeoplePlaying JazzJazz And Blues Author:Rahsaan Roland Kirk