"I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college professor, and yet I did all those things and I did them well. I put out some records in the 1980's and 1990's that changed the way some trumpet players played." - Paul Smoker
source: Interview with Ron Netsky / Rochester City Newspaper (June 22, 2010)
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Johnny St. Cyr Quotes
"A jazz musician have to be a working class of man, out in the open all the time, healthy and strong." - Johnny St. Cyr
source: 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It' (Nat Shapiro, First published 1966)
source: 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It' (Nat Shapiro, First published 1966)
Barry Ulanov Quotes
"Getting into jazz singing professionally is chiefly a matter of developing a stoical disregard for decent food, decent lodgings and a decent income." - Barry Ulanov
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else." - Sonny Rollins
George Carlin Quotes
"Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free." - George Carlin (regarding jam sessions)
Mel Torme Quotes
"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two." - Mel Torme
Les Paul Quotes
"I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working." - Les Paul
Cab Calloway Quotes
"We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough." -Cab Calloway
Billie Holiday Quotes
"I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old." - Billie Holiday
