“Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.”
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“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.”
Source: Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments
“One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.”
“When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.”
“Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.”
“You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?”
“Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.”
“Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.”
“There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.”
“I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.”
“We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.”
“I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.”
Source: Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography
“The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.”
“The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.”
“If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.”
“You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.”
“I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.”
“I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.”
“As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.”