"I was about a ten year overnight success. From 16 through 26 I moved throughout Canada and the U.S., and I did everything from theater to singing in restaurants or shopping malls, or basically anything that would help me to have that break, or take a step, or learn my craft, and I lived on my potential every day for ten years." - Michael Buble
source: Interview with Inside Thirteen (March 1, 2010)
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Tal Farlow Quotes
"For something to gain so much popularity and appeal for so many people, it has to be either musically valid or so commercial that you can't ignore it, especially if your living depends on it. Jazz has never really reached that kind of popularity and I don't think it ever will, because you're actually playing for musicians and musicians are not a good crowd to play for. If you are going to try and make some money, you've got to appeal to a wider area than that. But I think that it's the musicians that determine who's good, who goes to the top, and who gets work. I guess the enthusiasts who are not involved in it, just take the musicians word for it." - Tal Farlow
George Benson Quotes
"People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!" - George Benson
Artie Shaw Quotes
"Whatever you do in life, aim at perfection. It will not be understood or even appreciated by most people. However, in the long run, the closer you come to achieving your own inner standards of perfection, and they'll be rising all the time, the better you'll be. In your lifetime you will come reasonable close (two or three times) to perfection. I've come about twice where I can say that is as close to perfection as I can get. I consider myself an 80-percent loser, of which I am proud. So, have fun. Get into your life and do what you enjoy and be the best at what you can be. Maybe you won't be successful and rich by the world's standards, but you will have the best life capable of having. If you don't do that, you're cheating yourself." - Artie Shaw
source: Artie Shaw's commencement speech entitled 'Three Chords For Beauty And One To Pay The Rent', given to the graduates at California Lutheran University, 1987.
source: Artie Shaw's commencement speech entitled 'Three Chords For Beauty And One To Pay The Rent', given to the graduates at California Lutheran University, 1987.
Artie Shaw Quotes
"I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity." - Artie Shaw (when asked why he walked off stage at the Hotel Pennsylvania in 1939, and eventually moved to a little village in Mexico.)
source: Jazz Connection Magazine
source: Jazz Connection Magazine
Bill Evans Quotes
"I am worked hard to [become successful] and I had put all my hopes in it. But I see so many talented people who are not successful." - Bill Evans
source: Interview with Jazz Magazine (France), 1965
source: Interview with Jazz Magazine (France), 1965
Stan Kenton Quotes
"When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy." - Stan Kenton
Mel Torme Quotes
"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album." - Mel Torme
John McLaughlin Quotes
"There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial." - John McLaughlin
Roy Ayers Quotes
"Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property." - Roy Ayers
