Showing posts with label Individuality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Individuality. Show all posts
Lester Young Quotes
"The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand." - Lester Young
Ellis Marsalis Quotes
"At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual." - Ellis Marsalis
Bill Evans Quotes
"First of all, I never strive for identity. That's something that just has happened automatically as a result, I think, of just putting things together, tearing things apart and putting it together my own way, and somehow I guess the individual comes through eventually." - Bill Evans
Ornette Coleman Quotes
"That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about." - Ornette Coleman
Coleman Hawkins Quotes
"I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else." - Coleman Hawkins
Buddy Rich Quotes
"Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste." - Buddy Rich
