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1jazz quotes Empty jazz quotes Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:37 am

kenny

kenny

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

"Jazz was never supposed to be polite." Tony Williams

"Drummers are subject to the physical laws of nature. One of them states that if you drop a wing nut, it will roll under the bass drum." ~ Roy Burns

"You can avant all the gardes you want, the stuff Duke Ellington was doing is where it's at." Steve Lacy

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2jazz quotes Empty Re: jazz quotes Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:33 am

D. Slam

D. Slam

"I've never heard anyone twirl drum sticks on a record."

- Billy Cobham: At one of his clinics I attended many years ago.

3jazz quotes Empty Re: jazz quotes Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:18 pm

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Admin (Pete)
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"If it sounds right, it is right." - Steve Gadd

"Tony was the mother of the mother fu@#$rs." - Steve Gadd

"Your job is NOT to get your part right on the
first take but to lay it down so that everyone
else can get their part down, on the first take." - Steve Gadd

"I only listen to myself. " - Tony Williams

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4jazz quotes Empty Re: jazz quotes Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:45 pm

D. Slam

D. Slam

"You find time to eat, don't you?"

- Elvin Jones: When asked if he ever finds time to practice.

Though this next quote was not from a jazz player, it's still a great quote from a great artist nonetheless:

"I can see 20/20 in the dark."

- Stevie Wonder

5jazz quotes Empty Re: jazz quotes Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:26 pm

Walter Kolosky



Below is an excerpt from my first book Girls Don't Like Real Jazz:


The extent that enemies of jazz have gone to alter documents and edit audio and video records is astoundingly treacherous. It took a great deal of painstaking investigative research to locate and confirm the quotes listed below. At times during my investigative work bodily harm was a true possibility. But I would do anything for jazz and the country I love. After reading these quotes you will be as outraged as I am that they have been tampered with.

Original Quotes:

Nathan Hale: “I only regret I have but one life to give for jazz.”

Winston Churchill: “Never have so few played so much jazz for so little money.”

Virgil Tibbs: “They call me Mr. Jazz.”

Marie Antoinette: “Let them listen to smooth jazz.”

Alexander Graham Bell: “Come here, Watson. I hear jazz.”

Goldfinger: “No, Mr. Bond, I want you to like jazz.”

Thomas Edison: “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% listening to jazz music.”

Woody Allen: “Eighty percent of success is showing up for a jazz gig.”

Oliver Twist: “Please, sir. I want some more jazz.”

Benjamin Franklin: “Jazz is living proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.”

W.C. Fields: “On the whole, I'd rather be at the Newport Jazz Festival.”

John F. Kennedy: “Before the end of this decade, we will put jazz on the moon.”

Martin Luther King: "I’ve been to the mountain top and I have heard the promised jazz!"

Neil Armstrong: “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for jazz music.”

Oprah Winfrey: “I still have my feet on the ground; I just listen to better jazz.”

Three Stooges: “Free jazz, five dollars. Free jazz, five dollars!”

Inspector Clouseau: “I thought you said your jazz does not bite.”

Ski Lodge Clerk: “That is not my jazz.”

Eubie Blake: “If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of my jazz record collection.”

Frank Zappa: “Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.”

Patrick Henry: “Give me jazz or give me death.”

Yogi Berra: “I always thought that jazz record would stand until it was broken.”

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart: “I may not be able to define real jazz, but I know it when I hear it.”

Rodney Dangerfield: “The only time I got any respect was when I was at a jazz concert.”

Marilyn Monroe: “Jazz is a girl’s best friend.”

Vince Lombardi: “ Jazz isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.”

Pliny the Elder: “Home is where the jazz is.”

Groucho Marx: “A man’s only as old as the jazz he listens to.”

Barack Obama: “Yes, I pal around with jazz musicians.”

Unknown: “As goes jazz; so goes the country.”

6jazz quotes Empty Re: jazz quotes Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:47 pm

kenny

kenny

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen." ~ Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington

"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God." ~ Lionel Hampton

"Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat." ~ Carmen McRae

"Music, family, and friends...what else is there? That's enough, isn't it?" ~ Dennis Chambers

"It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling." ~ Bill Evans

"Playing with Ringo is something everyone should have a chance to do. He's so honest. He just grooves, and when it's time for a fill, he fully commits." ~ Jim Keltner

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. ~ Henry Van Dyke

“He who cannot dance will say: 'The drum is bad'" ~ African Proverb

"Are you funky?" ~ Sly Stone's first words to drummer Andy Newmark

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7jazz quotes Empty Re: jazz quotes Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:17 am

D. Slam

D. Slam

"I'm the best drummer I've ever played with." Wink

- Don Thomas

8jazz quotes Empty Re: jazz quotes Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:51 pm

kenny

kenny

"So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop. " ~ Buddy Rich

"There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together." ~ Keith Richards

"But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band." ~ Buddy Rich

"There is only one better thing than music - live music." ~ Jacek Bukowski

"They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it." ~ Dizzy Gillespie

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9jazz quotes Empty Re: jazz quotes Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:02 pm

kenny

kenny

"Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside of you, and take some of you with it when it leaves." -Henry Threadgill

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