“I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.” MomentsActorsActingStudyDadMusicianJazzMy DadCompareCourageousI Have LearnedGiftedLive In The MomentJazz MusicQuartetsGood Acting Author:Nat Wolff
“I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the way you function in society, your beliefs and the way you live, that is where you will find a real musician, a real artist.” WayRealArtistBeliefGivenStudyMusicianFunctionThese DaysProficiencyReal Artists Author:David Finckel
“What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.” WayTryingPracticeStudyMusicianInstrumentsSincereCompositionImpartPersonal Touch Author:Roscoe Mitchell
“I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.” IfsLooksHas BeensStudyMusicianTwentiesAfrican AmericanChicksFlutesOld Picture Author:Yusef Lateef
“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.” YearsCoursesLiteratureStudyChangedStudentsCollegeFitMusicianThirdsExtraordinaryChanged My LifeConservatoryStudying Literature Author:Garth Greenwell
“We'd be recording and I'd go down to Greenpoint where Rostam was living and track stuff... It was a busy time. I felt like in general, I was just super psyched with the prospect of getting to be a musician, that it became a thing that I would think about more than I would think about my studies and stuff like that. I still did fine, but it was an interesting time in my life.” ThinkingStillsFeltStuffInterestingStudyFineMusicianBusyTrackInteresting Times Author:Chris Baio
“I worry about that terribly because the public eye can bring all sorts of unwanted intrusions and problems. But he's treading his own path. I think the modeling is something that Rafferty Law sees as a pastime and something to maybe give him a bit of pocket money. He's a musician mostly. He's in college studying music, which he takes very seriously and I think that is something that he will concentrate on in the future.” ThinkingGivingProblemEyeLawBitsWorryStudyPathCollegeMusicianPocketsModelingUnwantedPastimePublic EyeIntrusionTreadingStudying Music Author:Jude Law
“It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their discoveries, not as a final destination but as a catalyst for your original ideas.” ImportantIdeasUseGrowsStudyMastersMusicianDiscoveryOriginalsFinalsDestinationCatalystOriginal IdeasFinal Destination Author:Carl Orr
“There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's - but I used to study with Junior Mance, and he would tell me about Bradley's. It was a very important place for a generation of jazz musicians in New York. It was really all about pianists there.” ImportantUsedStudyGenerationsNew YorkMusicianJazzClubsUsed To BeJuniorsJazz MusicPianistJazz Musician Author:Jose James