Showing posts with label Drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drugs. Show all posts
Benny Carter Quotes
"I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture." - Benny Carter
Art Pepper Quotes
"I tried to stay out of it [drugs] for a long time, knowing what it might do. I think that, in my searching for something—for love, acceptance or whatever it is, to be a real man, to relate to my father, and all those things—going to prison was a help. It was part of my evolution, as a human being and as a musician. I feel that I have much deeper feelings now than I would have had, had I just been a musician all that time, which would have been a very dull existence. You know, I wanted something more than just being thought of as a musician, period. To be labelled 'Art Pepper, musician', period, would just be awful—what a boring life that would be." - Art Pepper
source: Interview with Les Tomkins (1979)
source: Interview with Les Tomkins (1979)
Carlos Santana Quotes
"John Coltrane represented getting to the Promised Land without the needle. He took the keys from hell with his sound, telling us that we don't have to do drugs in order to be connected anywhere from the microcosm to the top of the galaxy. He made a different kind of commitment with music." - Carlos Santana
Sam Andrew Quotes
"I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did." - Sam Andrew (guitarist and founding member of Janis Joplin's Big Brother & the Holding Company)
Johnny Frigo Quotes
"Oh, yeah. You know, the bus. It’s that same old thing. I never “took” anything, you know. I’ve yet to smoke a normal cigarette in my entire life. It was very strange. All kids that are young want to emulate their peers, and, luckily, I never got into that bag. I’m not bragging. I’m just lucky." - Johnny Frigo
source: digitalinterviews.com
source: digitalinterviews.com
Joe Pass Quotes
"Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years." - Joe Pass
source: Interview with Guitar Magazine (June, 1974)
source: Interview with Guitar Magazine (June, 1974)
Louis Armstrong Quotes
"It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend." - Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong Quotes
"It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship." - Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong Quotes
"We did call ourselves vipers, which could have been anybody from all walks of life that smoked and respected gage. That was our cute little name for marijuana, and it was a misdemeanor in those days. Much different from the pressure and charges the law lays on a guy who smokes pot - a later name for the same thing. We always looked at pot as a sort of medicine, a cheap drunk and with much better thoughts than one that's full of liquor." - Louis Armstrong
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
Charles Mingus Quotes
It [jazz] isn't like it used to be. The guys aren't together. They're all separated. Individuals now. Bird was a symbol. It was a clique, a clique of people. Who all believed in one thing: gettin' high. And playin'." - Charles Mingus
Jimmy Heath Quotes
"'Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and piano player Carl Perkins would die two years later. When the record was recorded I was behind bars myself. In 1955 I was caught with narcotics and had to serve almost five years. Luckily, I was allowed to keep my saxophone in the cell, and I composed a lot during the time. They had to come fetch the music for Playboys from jail." - Jimmy Heath
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability." - Dizzy Gillespie
Lawrence Brown Quotes
"I never smoked, drank, or gambled, but I didn't keep myself away from those who did. The bar is still the main place where I meet my friends. I have a Coke and buy them a whiskey. When marijuana became popular in the West around 1932, I used to see them having a ball, but it never attracted me. I remember going to one party with a quart of milk. They drank their liquor and smoked their weed, and I drank my milk."
Billie Holiday Quotes
"In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you." -Billie Holiday
