Showing posts with label Paul Desmond Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Desmond Quotes. Show all posts
Paul Desmond Quotes
"The qualities in music which I considered most important -- and still do -- were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity." - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond Quotes
"I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep." - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond Quotes
"Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above." - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond Quotes
"We're working as if it we're going out of style — which of course it is." - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond Quotes
"I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast." - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond Quotes
"I have won several prizes as the world’s slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness." - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond Quotes
"I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini." - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond Quotes
"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught." - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond Quotes
"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing." - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond Quotes
"I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age." - Paul Desmond
