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  • Never play anything the same way twice.

    Music   Play   Way  
  • It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

    Music   Keys   Play  
  • Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

    Pimp   Jazz   Young  
  • The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

  • I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college professor, and yet I did all those things and I did them well. I put out some records in the 1980's and 1990's that changed the way some trumpet players played.

  • Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's power to take the crowd wherever I want them to go. I love it when they laugh, especially when they relate through laughter. It's a beautiful thing. It also means I'm going to get paid, which is nice.

  • Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

  • I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

    Funny   Music   Guitar  
  • We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.

    Mean   Rocks   Play  
    Source: ritchieyorke.com
  • I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

    Mean   Musician   Firsts  
  • Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.

    Art   Fire   Musician  
    Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

    Music   Play   Bullshit  
  • So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya.

    Oil   Trying   Musician  
    Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.78, Random House
  • In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

    Views   Musician   Jazz  
  • To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician)... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries.

    Country   Art   Yale  
    Randy Sandke (2010). “Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz”, Scarecrow Pr
  • [Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

    Musician   Jazz   Feels  
    Source: hepcat1950.com
  • Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

    People   Brain   Musician  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

    Beauty   Musician   Jazz  
    Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (2000). “From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance”, p.192, HeartMath
  • I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten or twelve years. Based on some political stuff and other things, I think I'm not the only musician, the only American jazz musician that's not going to Europe quite as much. I think we're seen a little differently in the world, unfortunately, than we were pre-Iraq invasion and things like that.

    Thinking   Years   Europe  
  • Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

    Musician   Jazz   Reason  
    Source: hepcat1950.com
  • Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."

    Musician   Looks   Wow  
    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.
  • I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

  • Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

    Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
  • I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

  • The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

    Musician   Gigs   Jazz  
  • Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

    Work   Night   Musician  
  • If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

    Life   Music   Practice  
  • Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

    George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
  • A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.

  • I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.

    New York   Fun   Artist  
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