Showing posts with label Miroslav Vitous Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miroslav Vitous Quotes. Show all posts
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer." - Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies." - Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose." - Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument." -Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it." - Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open." -Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap." - Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples." - Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself." - Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going." - Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitous Quotes
"I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend." - Miroslav Vitous
