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Stan Getz Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Art Jazz Music

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Music, Cameras, Jazz

I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.

Thinking, Play, Trouble

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

Sound, Use, Bass

When I'm alcohol-free now and even to see the world around me, I appreciate it, but I never truly enjoy too much of it maybe because I feel like I'm a working musician. There are some joyous moments, but I will not think a joyous moment.

Thinking, Appreciate, Alcohol

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I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

Years, Two, Habit

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We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

Music, Records, Jazz

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...I never tried to imitate anybody, but when you love somebody's music, you're influenced...I really don't know how I developed my sound, but it comes from a combination of my musical conception and no doubt the basic shape of the oral cavity.

Doubt, Musical, Sound

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

Band, Jazz, Kind

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

Men, Appreciate

Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.

Thinking, Special, Sound

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My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

Dark, Sound, Rooms

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