LearnJazzPiano.com archives: Quotes
alhaynes -- 09/23/2004, 10:36:57 -- #7378
Bill Evans said :
When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed.

and,

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Oscar Peterson: Note-for-Note Transcriptions of Classic Recordings
Scot -- 09/23/2004, 12:12:03 -- #7386
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.  never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

~George Washington

"When the people fear  the government,  you have tyranny... when the government fears the people, you have liberty."

~Thomas Jefferson

Scot -- 09/29/2004, 09:40:27 -- #7554
"I was abducted by garden bugs and kept in a patch of rotting humus until I acknowledged on video that I killed baby snails and that shoes in general are the cause of everything.  While I`m not preoccupied with creatures small and crunchy,  I play music and ski.  What day is it?"

Scot -- 10/14/2004, 16:35:02 -- #8046
"You can run away, but you can't run away from yourself."

~Robert Marley

Scot -- 10/14/2004, 16:37:35 -- #8047
"Bob spoke deep words."

~Monty Alexander

Scot -- 10/15/2004, 23:19:18 -- #8085
"Half of what we do today is because we didn't know how to do it yesterday."

~Scot Ranney

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Scot -- 11/03/2004, 15:04:22 -- #8595
Walt Whitman
A little poem by Walt Whitman, something to keep in mind in dark times:

To The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States,
Resist much, obey little;
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

~Walt Whitman

Oscar Peterson: Note-for-Note Transcriptions of Classic Recordings
mbowman -- 11/25/2004, 19:03:15 -- #9237
Dan somebody said
"Turn up the eagles, the neighbors and listening."

7 -- 01/15/2005, 16:46:11 -- #10423
Quotes and more quotes:

http://www.randyhalberstadt.com/Jazzquotes.htm

Some great ones in here!

Whacky -- 01/15/2005, 18:03:21 -- #10425
Like this one:

"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." --Charles Mingus

Scot -- 01/16/2005, 05:17:52 -- #10435
And darnit, sometimes pirates eat strawberries.

jazzmanpiano08 -- 02/27/2005, 20:31:13 -- #11624
Yogi Bara (not sure how to spell it)
"There are no great jazz players alive today because all the good ones are dead and those who are alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead." The interviewer said "I dont understand" And Yogi says "I havent taight you enough about jazz for you to not understand it so badly"

I like this one best !!!

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SolArt -- 07/01/2005, 04:01:18 -- #15976
"Simplicity is everything. After having exhausted all the difficulties, after having played immense quantities of notes, and more notes, then simplicity emerges with all its charm, like art's final seal. Whoever wants to obtain this immediately will never achieve it: you can't begin with the end. One has to have studied a lot, tremendously, to reach this goal; it's no easy matter."-Chopin

Oscar Peterson: Note-for-Note Transcriptions of Classic Recordings
Kai -- 07/01/2005, 04:30:26 -- #15978
Tht reminds me of a favourite of mineLudwig Mies van der Rohe quotes:
"Less is More!

SolArt -- 07/01/2005, 06:48:34 -- #15981
"The difference between Kalkbrenner and Chopin was remarkable: the latter never played his works twice with the same expression, and yet the result was always ideally beautiful, thanks to the ever-fresh inspiration, powerful, tender or sorrowful. He could have played the same piece twenty times in succession, and you would still listen with equal fascination."---Peru (Student of Chopin)

SolArt -- 07/01/2005, 06:53:46 -- #15982
"Chopin NEVER played his own compositions twice alike, but varied each according to the mood of the moment, a mood that charmed by its very waywardness; his playing resembled nothing so much as the tender delicate tints seen in mother-o'-pearl, and rendered apparently without the least effort."---Hipkins

jpablodl -- 09/06/2005, 17:37:02 -- #18642
"Love is the answer" Lennon

Conductor G -- 09/07/2005, 15:51:36 -- #18708
This One is Great!
"If I wanted to have fun, I'd go fishin'. When I play jazz it is to further jazz not to have "fun". I stray from playing piano when around friends or family. Jazz Piano to me is strenuous, with the composition constantly asking to be improved, corrected, and cretiqued"  
                                     ---Harry Connick, Jr.

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Scot -- 03/15/2006, 13:04:20 -- #25222
I just made this one up in another room, but I like it:

Play from the heart, practice from the head.

SolArt -- 03/25/2006, 05:03:18 -- #25586
Very good advice.

7 -- 03/25/2006, 17:50:27 -- #25604
Chinese Proverb:
"When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others."

SolArt -- 03/26/2006, 07:47:17 -- #25611
However some valuable tidbits should not be shared, or you may find yourself replaced on the job!

7 -- 04/22/2006, 15:16:51 -- #26643
Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.
~ Jon Hendricks

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
~ Yusef Lateef


If they act too hip, you know they can't play shit.
~ Miles Davis

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
~ Mary Lou Williams

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.
~ Henry Threadgill

For his contributions to jazz, Kenny G should be: (D) Smeared with bacon grease, placed in a cage with three underfed Kodiak grizzly bears, and whatever happens, happens.
~ Genius Guide to Jazz, January 2004

Davis understood that the space between the notes was sometimes just as important as the notes themselves. But he also understood that too much space between the notes, and people would think that the concert was over and go home...
~ Genius Guide to Jazz, July 2001

As the Avant Garde movement tore down every wall of the old establishment, only one rule that had stood from the very inception of jazz remained: no accordions.
~ Genius Guide to Jazz, May 2001

You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.
~ Earl Hines

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
~ Dizzy Gillespie

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.
~ Clark Terry

Only play what you hear. If you don't hear anything, don't play anything.
~ Chick Corea

New Orleans is the only place I know of where you ask a little kid what he wants to be and instead of saying "I want to be a policeman," or "I want to be a fireman," he says, I want to be a musician".
~ Alan Jaffe

More Jazz quotes at: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzquotes.php

Scot -- 05/10/2006, 04:28:54 -- #27115
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
Anecdotes of the Rvd Percival Stockdale (also begins the Hunter S. Thompson book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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SolArt -- 05/14/2006, 10:26:48 -- #27198
Evil men rule when good men do nothing.

7 -- 05/20/2006, 16:41:43 -- #27336
"Artist's Task"

    On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on
    stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln
    Center in New York City. If you have ever been to a Perlman
    concert, you know that getting on stage is no small
    achievement for him. He was stricken with polio as a child,
    and so he has braces on both legs and walks with the aid of
    two crutches. To see him walk across the stage one step at
    a time, painfully and slowly, is an unforgettable sight. He
    walks painfully, yet majestically, until he reaches his chair.
    Then he sits down, slowly, puts his crutches on the floor,
    undoes the clasps on his legs, tucks one foot back and
    extends the other foot forward. Then he bends down and
    picks up the violin, puts it under his chin, nods to the
    conductor and proceeds to play. By now, the audience is
    used to this ritual. They sit quietly while he makes his
    way across the stage to his chair. They remain reverently
    silent while he undoes the clasps on his legs.
    They wait until he is ready to play.

    But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished
    the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke.
    You could hear it snap - it went off like gunfire across the
    room. There was no mistaking what that sound meant. There
    was no mistaking what he had to do. People who were there
    that night thought to themselves: We figured that he would
    have to get up, put on the clasps again, pick up the crutches
    and limp his way off stage, to either find another violin or
    else find another string for this one. But he didn't.

    Instead, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then
    signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra began,
    and he played from where he had left off. And he played with
    such passion and such power and such purity as we had never
    heard before. Of course, anyone knows that it is impossible
    to play a symphonic work with just three strings. I know that,
    and you know that, but that night Itzhak Perlman refused to
    acknowledge that. You could see him modulating, changing,
    recomposing the piece in his head. At one point, it sounded
    like he was de-tuning the strings to get new sounds from them
    that they had never made before.

    When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room.
    And then people rose and cheered. There was an extraordinary
    outburst of applause from every corner of the auditorium. We
    were all on our feet, screaming and cheering, doing everything
    we could to show how much we appreciated what he had done.
    He smiled, wiped the sweat from this brow, raised his bow to
    quiet us, and then he said, not boastfully but in a quiet,
    pensive, reverent tone,

"You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how  much music you can still make with what you have left."

    What a powerful line that is. It has stayed in my mind ever
    since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the way of
    life - not just for artists but for all of us. So, perhaps
    our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in
    which we live is to make music, at first with all that we
    have and then, when that is no longer possible, to still make
    music with all that we have left.

    --Source Unknown

Scot -- 06/26/2006, 13:54:09 -- #28361
All kings [leaders] should have a noose around their neck; it helps keep them upright.

SolArt -- 06/27/2006, 17:11:35 -- #28386
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." (Einstein)

Kai -- 06/28/2006, 14:32:48 -- #28406
"Oops - can't spell rude words.

Scot -- 10/23/2006, 09:59:41 -- #30640
Henry Ford
Hi Folks,

I just ran across a page of Henry Ford quotes and they are kind of inspiring.  

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_ford.html

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Whacky -- 12/30/2006, 09:11:37 -- #32063
"To err is human; to forgive is canine"

~ anonymous

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