Quotes about music
music addiction jazz
Music is an addiction. Miles Davis
music way hearing
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
musician spirit great-music
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
music play horns
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
music nice confused
I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
musical carter ought
Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
musical taught jazz
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
music mistake europe
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
music museums glasses
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
musical festivals next
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
music three way
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.
music space perfect
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
music blue done
So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.
music guitar sound
Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.
music notes
There are no wrong notes.
music swings purple
I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
music men artist
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
music trying hips
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
music play african-american
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
music jazz heroin
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
music understood ifs
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
music men legends
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
music causes quitting
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
music father play
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
music matter kind
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
music museums pieces
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
music looks
Always look ahead, but never look back.
music hype white
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.
music play way
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
music silence framework
Music is the framework around the silence.
music play audience
We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
music men should
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
music guitar self
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.