"You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you’re getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz." - Harry Connick, Jr.
source: The Daily Telegraph (October 23, 2009)
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Showing posts with label Style. Show all posts
Michael Buble Quotes
"You can try to trick the people and me come out wearing a fedora and a tuxedo but that's not me. I was born in the late 70's, I wear jeans. I don't hang out in casinos. The lifestyle isn't my thing. I don't drink martinis and I don't smoke cigars." - Michael Buble
Benny Carter Quotes
"In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play." - Benny Carter
Bill Crow Quotes
"Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music. Whatever style he chose to play at the moment would be filled with wonderful surprises that kept the rest of us continually delighted." - Bill Crow
source: Interview with Jazz Profiles (January 17, 2009)
source: Interview with Jazz Profiles (January 17, 2009)
Chick Corea Quotes
"As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for it. Dustin Hoffman is one of the guys that sets a model for me, because of how good he is at being such different characters. Every time you see DeNiro, he's pretty much DeNiro -- great, but DeNiro. Hoffman is different every time, depending on his character. That's how I see myself as a performer." - Chick Corea
source: digitalinterviews.com
source: digitalinterviews.com
Benny Goodman Quotes
"I always wanted to do things with style. Don’t care if it was clothes, or eating, or women. Or making music. Especially that. If you’re going to do it, do it right. Don’t take second class. You know—I’d rather have one or two good suits than a bunch of crappy ones. One of the things I think is wrong with a lot of what you see today is that it doesn’t have that sense of style, of elegance. I don’t know where it’s gone." - Benny Goodman
source: Interview with American Heritage Magazine (Oct/Nov, 1981)
source: Interview with American Heritage Magazine (Oct/Nov, 1981)
Bill Evans Quotes
"I hardly believe I'm as talented as some others. Someone with talent possesses a kind of facility and plays well as early as 16 or 17, much better than I could play myself at that age. I had to practice a lot and spend a lot of time searching and digging before I got anywhere. And because of that, I later became more aware of what I was doing. I wasn't an imitation. I found myself with a synthesis of the playing of many musicians. From this something came out and I think it's really mine." - Bill Evans
source: Interview with Jazz Magazine (France), 1965
source: Interview with Jazz Magazine (France), 1965
Doc Severinsen Quotes
"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation." - Doc Severinsen
Ornette Coleman Quotes
"The idea is more important than the style or the contents of the style you're trying to play in." - Ornette Coleman
Ben Webster Quotes
"If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag." - Ben Webster
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing." - Oscar Peterson
Charles Mingus Quotes
"Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus." - Charles Mingus
Jelly Roll Morton Quotes
"I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style." - Jelly Roll Morton
Herbie Hancock Quotes
"It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project." - Herbie Hancock
Dave Holland Quotes
"The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice." - Dave Holland
Roy Ayers Quotes
"People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play." - Roy Ayers
Coleman Hawkins Quotes
"I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play." - Coleman Hawkins
