#jazz musician

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ↗

— Andy Richter

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The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

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It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. ↗

— David Baker

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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#away #become #beings #come #discovering

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days. ↗

— Evan Parker

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In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

#jazz #jazz musician #musician #view

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do. ↗

— Carlos Santana

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I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

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