Anyway, here’s a list of funny quotes from jazz musicians that I am sure you guys will enjoy reading. Have fun and enjoy….:)
“Opinions are like assholes . . . everyone’s got one.” – Art Blakey
“Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I’ll do with my left. [to Bud Powell]” – Art Tatum
I can’t understand these guys who just have to have your autograph. I asked one of them ‘What do you do when you get home, take it out and look at it?’” – Artie Shaw
“Well, I’m too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I’m just gon’ keep playin’” – Clark Terry
“If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.” – Coleman Hawkins
“Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!” – Count Basie
“Practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?” – David Dean
“I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.” – Dizzy Gillespie
“I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.” – Duke Ellington
“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.” – Duke Ellington
“There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.” – Duke Ellington
“There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have too have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is too pay them money!” - Duke Ellington
“Women and rhythm-section first!” – Jaco Pastorius
“[Bebop is] Chinese music.” - Louis Armstrong
“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.” – Louis Armstrong
“We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ‘em, so they can keep ‘em.” – Miles Davis
“In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.” – Miles Davis
“You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads. ” – Miles Davis
“We’re not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.” – Oscar Peterson
“Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers…” – Pat Metheny
“I have won several prizes as the world’s slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness.” - Paul Desmond
“I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public want — you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing — even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.” – Thelonious Monk
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