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“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.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.”

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Author:Pablo Casals

“Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.”

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Author:Marianne Faithfull

“I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.”

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Author:Pete Doherty

“Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.”

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Author:Lester Young

“Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“Never play anything the same way twice.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.”

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Author:Don Ellis

“Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.”

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Author:Lionel Hampton

“As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.”

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Author:Lee Konitz

“Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.”

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Author:Charles Mingus

“A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.”

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Author:Jaco Pastorius

“Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.”

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Author:Jack Teagarden

“I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.”

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Author:Cassandra Wilson

“Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.”

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Author:Lester Bowie

“To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.”

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Author:Dave Kikoski

“I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?”

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Author:Jeff Beck

“A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.”

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Author:Charlie Byrd

“For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.”

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Author:Roger Waters

“Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.”

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Author:Kirke Mechem

“I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“Never play a thing the same way twice.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“And I don't regret the rain Or the nights I felt the pain Or the tears I had to cry Some of those times along the way. Every road I had to take, Every time my heart would break, It was just something that I had to get through, To get me to you.”

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Author:Lila McCann

“Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.”

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Author:Vanessa L. Williams

“However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.”

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Author:Samuel Pepys

“Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.”

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Author:John D. MacDonald

“Man, if anybody knew the path that we've been on, no one in their right mind would ever try to duplicate it. That's something Nashville always tries to do, though. If something is successful, they try to repeat it by telling other people, "Hey, do what that guy did." I just don't think it works that way. The first one who gest there, the one that cuts the path ... it's always the roughest path but I think it's got the most reward at the end.”

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Author:Eric Church

“The greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you can make your little tape and work on it and work on it until you got it the way you want it. And then you can put it on the net. And if it's any damn good somebody's gonna notice. That's happened over and over again now. To me that's good. That's good access that isn't controlled by the companies. I think that's a great thing.”

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Author:David Crosby

“I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.”

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Author:Jorma Kaukonen

“He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.”

Source: The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country: Two Classic Westerns

“It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”

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Author:A. R. Rahman

“He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix.”

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Author:B. B. King

“You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd sure better not be doing it because it's a way to make a living, 'cause that ain't always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.”

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Author:Waylon Jennings

“Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.”

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Author:Pat Metheny

“The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.”

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Author:Frank Sinatra

“We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“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.”

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Author:Thelonious Monk

“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.”

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Book:Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments

Source: Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments

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