Showing posts with label Originality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Originality. Show all posts
Count Basie Quotes
"I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves." - Count Basie
Horace Silver Quotes
"We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different." - Horace Silver
Lester Young Quotes
"Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original." - Lester Young
Madeleine Peyroux Quotes
"I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way." - Madeleine Peyroux
Charlie Haden Quotes
"As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish." - Charlie Haden
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
Billie Holiday Quotes
"You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all." - Billie Holiday
