LearnJazzPiano.com archives: Great Jazz Sayings
ronald1 -- 01/12/2007, 15:27:54 -- #32351
I've recently been reading effortless mastery and forward motion, both of which contain some very refreshing and stimulating sayings from some of the greats; if find they can have an instant impact on my playing.  Anyway, let me know your favourites please.  I'll start us off with "If you hear nothing, play nothing" (or something like that!) - Miles Davis

7 -- 01/12/2007, 18:58:07 -- #32351
"There's lots of room at the top"

- Bird

jaledin -- 01/12/2007, 19:20:02 -- #32351
"I never practice my guitar; from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat."

- Wes

ronald1 -- 01/13/2007, 05:15:27 -- #32351
nice ones...

"Everything is a pickup" - Miles Davis

ryno200sx -- 01/13/2007, 05:48:32 -- #32351
"If it sounds good, it is good" - Duke Ellington

sid -- 01/13/2007, 07:48:34 -- #32351
If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
(Eubie Blake aged 100)

Scot -- 01/13/2007, 09:35:57 -- #32351
"You can't hold no groove if you don't got a pocket." - Victor Wooten

Mike -- 01/13/2007, 11:40:04 -- #32351
"Bird died at the age of thirty-four; that's really living pretty heavy. I'm fifty-two now, and I'll never live long enough to play as good as him-but I will live long enough to play as good as me. As I have said a couple of times, I was very involved in Lennie Tristano`s music. To play like Bird was plain old difficult; so I figured I'd just stick to whatever I was doing there with Lennie."
lee Konitz

Whacky -- 01/13/2007, 14:10:41 -- #32351
"There are only two types of music; good and bad"

~Duke

Whacky -- 01/13/2007, 14:12:27 -- #32351
"Man, I suck"

~Rick Zelle

JHMurray -- 01/13/2007, 15:25:11 -- #32351
"People don't know what they like. They only like what they know."

~Ellis Marsalis

"Yeah I like Roberta (Flack), but if Al Green had one t*t, I'd marry that Mutha****er".

~Miles

ronald1 -- 01/13/2007, 16:19:46 -- #32351
haha...great sayings, but I'm afraid JHMurray has to win it with that last miles quote (even if it isn't particular going to enhance my playing abilities!)

Nikos -- 01/13/2007, 18:34:02 -- #32351
"I let the music play me."

~Art Farmer

DoubleZ -- 01/14/2007, 13:30:23 -- #32351
"There is no such thing as a wrong note." - Art Tatum.

"Play what you hear.  If you don't hear anything, don't play anything." - Chick Corea

^^Just read that on another thread here.

Jazz+ -- 01/14/2007, 20:15:21 -- #32351
"If you think you might like to quit, do it."

Kenny Werner
Effortless Mastery p

"Did you know that it's not even important that you play another note of music again? In fact, many of you have a greater chance of hapiness if you STOP PLAYING RIGHT NOW!"

Kenny Werner
Effortless Mastery p. 44

gsandberg -- 01/14/2007, 23:37:17 -- #32351
"First learn all about your instrument, then forget about all that and start playing"

C Parker

dnarkosis -- 01/15/2007, 07:29:48 -- #32351
"It's all there on the piano, just waiting to be played."

Art Tatum's response to a query from a young Oscar Peterson

Mikeondarkstar -- 01/15/2007, 17:22:18 -- #32351
"if you practice too fast, you are practicing your mistakes" -SR

elwapo -- 01/16/2007, 05:29:17 -- #32351
"Learn how to play a melody before you do all them fancy embellishments"

Joe "King" Oliver to Louis Armstrong

jmkarns -- 01/17/2007, 12:19:39 -- #32351
"Anyone can play as I have.  They need only to press the right keys at the right time."  J.S. Bach

CynBad -- 01/21/2007, 20:31:03 -- #32351
Here's a whole collection of them:

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

charlp88 -- 01/31/2007, 13:23:02 -- #32351
BILL EVANS once said Jazz is not a what it is a HOW

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