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Stan Getz Quotes about Music

All Stan Getz Quotes Art Jazz Music quotes

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Music, Play, Textbooks

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

Music, Ideas, Jazz

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Music, Art, Giving

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

Music, Spring, Perfection

Stan Getz (2017). “Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments”, p.2, Hal Leonard Corporation

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.

Music, Alphabet, Jazz

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Music, Lying, Believe

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

Music, People, Soul

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Music, Perfection, Jazz And Life

Stan Getz (2017). “Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments”, p.2, Hal Leonard Corporation

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

Music, Play, Voice

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

Music, Cameras, Jazz

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

Music, Records, Jazz

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