Trombone Shorty Quotes

"I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music." - Trombone Shorty

source: Interview with NPR (May 2, 2010)

Trombone Shorty Quotes

"As I was a kid, I had a bunch of musicians, they always told me that I should listen to all styles of music and try to play all styles and be authentic at it, if I can, because you never know who's gonna call you. This was coming from fellow horn players who would get the call to play with different types of people. Since I was a kid, that was just something I was always interested in." - Trombone Shorty

source: Interview with NPR (May 2, 2010)

Michael Buble Quotes

"I was about a ten year overnight success. From 16 through 26 I moved throughout Canada and the U.S., and I did everything from theater to singing in restaurants or shopping malls, or basically anything that would help me to have that break, or take a step, or learn my craft, and I lived on my potential every day for ten years." - Michael Buble

source: Interview with Inside Thirteen (March 1, 2010)

Bud Shank Quotes

"One of the big things that was a great help to me, at fifteen or sixteen, was the fact that a lot of black bands came through North Carolina on the road at that time, playing dances for black people only. Some great bands—one of the best I ever remember was Billy Eckstine's band, that had people like Dizzy Gillespie and Dexter Gordon on it. He came through there several times, and there were a few white guys who were permitted to be way up in the top balcony, looking down on the thing. I learned more, I think, from those circumstances than anything else. There were many other bands other than B's band—Ellington, Basie and a lot of lesser–known black bands—but that's the one that always stuck in my mind." - Bud Shank

source: Interview with Les Tomkins (1979)

Miles Davis Quotes

"Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education." - Miles Davis

source: Interview with Leonard Feather, Down Beat (May 25, 1961)

T Lavitz Quotes

"I started lessons down in the neighborhood from the local piano teacher when I was seven. The first thing I did was learn to read, and then study classical piano for ten years before I did anything else - about learning blues or how to jam. I had a really good structured background first." - T Lavitz

source: digitalinterviews.com

Chick Corea Quotes

"I feel fortunate to have been able to be with such great musicians. I feel that's really the way I developed my own music and art form; by getting continually inspired by great musicians, and also learning various musicians' approaches -- and their way. It's the standard way anyone learns a skill, which is apprenticeship. You work with someone who does what you want to do very well, and you learn the basic ideas and then take it where you want to go." - Chick Corea

source: digitalinterviews.com

Lenny Breau Quotes

"I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs." - Lenny Breau

Sweets Edison Quotes

"I should have paid him [Count Basie] to be in the band because I was having so much fun. You couldn’t pay for that kind of education." - Sweets Edison

Benny Goodman Quotes

"Some of the guys I played with .. didn’t go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I’d imagine that a lot of them criticized me—said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I’ve always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell." - Benny Goodman

source: Interview with American Heritage Magazine (Oct/Nov, 1981)

Madeleine Peyroux Quotes

"It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status." - Madeleine Peyroux

Lionel Hampton Quotes

"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s." - Lionel Hampton

Diana Krall Quotes

"I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out." - Diana Krall

Bill Evans Quotes

"When you begin to teach jazz, the most dangerous thing is that you tend to teach style. I had eleven piano students, and I would say eight of them didn't even want to know about chords or anything - they didn't even want to do anything that anybody had ever done, because they didn't want to be imitators. Well, of course, this is pretty naive, but nevertheless it does bring to light the fact that if you're going to try to teach jazz, you must abstract the principles of music which have nothing to do with style, and this is exceedingly difficult. So there, the teaching of jazz is a very touchy point. It ends up where the jazz player, ultimately, if he's going to be a serious jazz player, teaches himself." - Bill Evans

Wynton Marsalis Quotes

"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did." - Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis Quotes

"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music." - Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis Quotes

"I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do." - Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis Quotes

"I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time." - Wynton Marsalis

Duke Ellington Quotes

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master." - Duke Ellington

John Coltrane Quotes

"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music." - John Coltrane