Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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More quotes by Duke Ellington
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line.
By and large Jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.
More quotes about Music
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.
Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right, play a minor tune and it falls into place.
Marian McPartland
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
Using drugs didn't help me play, all it did was hang me up for 15 years.
Joe Pass
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton… oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
B. B. King
Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.
You can cage the singer but not the song.
I don't really look at my career in terms of highlights and low lights. I think I'm at this place right now and to be at this place right now I've had to go through many obstacles and lots of highs and lows and for me it's about the entire journey.
What a fool I am to think my breaking heart could kid the moon.
I heard someone say 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'
Mary Lou Williams
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Technique is the ability to translate your ideas into sound through your instrument.
I don't really get nervous, I prepare. When the music messed up in the beginning, it tapped into my nerves and when you're nervous and vulnerable, something special and something different can happen.
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.
Jelly Roll Morton
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