"I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and, then, I got accepted to go to New Orleans Center for Creative Artists ... it's where Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr. and all those guys went out." - Trombone Shorty
source: Interview with NPR (May 2, 2010)
Showing posts with label Music School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music School. Show all posts
Christian McBride Quotes
"That’s when I left Philly, to move up here to New York City. I learned a lot at Juilliard. It was actually my original intention to have a dual career. I wanted to have a career playing as much music as possible. I wanted to try to play jazz if I could. I wanted to play classical. I wanted to play R&B. I wanted to try to play everything but, obviously, that would be really hard to do. I went to Juilliard, obviously on a classical scholarship. I figured I was in New York City, so I would get to go to jam sessions and play with all of the jazz cats at night, and I could study classical in school during the day. But, you know, one thing led to another, and I wound up getting a lot of gigs on the jazz scene, and I had to temporarily hang up my classical career." - Christian McBride
source: digitalinterviews.com
source: digitalinterviews.com
Wyclef Jean Quotes
"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences." - Wyclef Jean
Pepper Adams Quotes
"I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch." - Pepper Adams
Ornette Coleman Quotes
"Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school." - Ornette Coleman
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
"The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose." - Miroslav Vitous
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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes." - Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses." - Chuck Mangione
Charlie Haden Quotes
"I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could." - Charlie Haden
Buddy Rich Quotes
"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play." - Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich Quotes
"As far as music school goes. I walked through Berkeley one time to visit with some people I know." - Buddy Rich
