Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth12 June 1941
CityChelsea, MA
CountryUnited States of America
business compete music people records
People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.
accessible audio music trade
It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.
gets knows
I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular.
interested music successful thoroughly various ways
I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.
american-musician band music playing wonderful
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
arc certain love played
When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.
american-musician art subject
Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
above art create high picasso
You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.
Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.
rendition
Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it deconstructively. That's the most fun, but I can only do that when I'm on my own.
teacher
I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.
american-musician musical sounds
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
jazz natural outside small
If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.