"The only thing I'm afraid of is death. When I was eighteen or nineteen I could have died. I was ready for death. Today, I'm not ready anymore. I've lost too much time as it is." - Bill Evans (when asked if he was afraid of getting old.)
source: Interview with Jazz Magazine (France), 1965
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Wingy Manone Quotes
"Sometimes it took them four hours to get to the cemetary. All the way they just swayed to the music and moaned. At the graveside they chanted questions, such as 'Did he ramble?' 'Did he gamble?' or 'Did he lead a good life until the police shot him down on St. James Street?' Then after the body was buried, they'd go back to town and all the way they'd swing. They just pulled the instruments apart. They played the hottest music in the world." - Wingy Manone (on funeral bands in New Orleans)
source: 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It' (Nat Shapiro, First published 1966)
source: 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It' (Nat Shapiro, First published 1966)
Roland Kirk Quotes
"When I die, I want them to play the BLACK AND CRAZY BLUES, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it." - Roland Kirk
Wingy Manone Quotes
"I have no regrets and I've done everything in life I wanted to do... So if I go out today or tomorrow it doesn't make no difference. But while I'm alive I want to go on playing. I like to play, and if I couldn't I'd be a miserable old man." - Wingy Manone
Nat King Cole Quotes
"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking." - Nat King Cole [while dying from lung cancer]
Herbie Mann Quotes
"When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now." - Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann Quotes
"But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way." - Herbie Mann
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25." -Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs." - Sonny Rollins
