Showing posts with label Stan Getz Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stan Getz Quotes. Show all posts
Stan Getz Quotes
"I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"The value of Jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life."
Stan Getz Quotes
"It's like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It's a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I've never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that's what jazz music is all about."
Stan Getz Quotes
"The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"The more you tighten up physically and mentally in jazz music, and maybe in most music, the worse it gets. That's why first takes have a much better chance of sounding right."
Stan Getz Quotes
"I have always given my sidemen room to maneuver. I believe that if the talent is there, it should be heard. I want my sidemen to find themselves because when they do, it helps the group as well."
Stan Getz Quotes
"I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"I was a withdrawn, hypersensitive kid. I would practice the saxophone in the bathroom, and the tenements were so close together that someone from across the alleyways would yell, 'Shut that kid up,' and my mother would say, 'Play louder Stanley, play louder.'" - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room." - Stan Getz
Stan Getz Quotes
"Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice." - Stan Getz
