Paul Desmond Citas

• The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Simplicity, Important

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• Intenté practicar durante unas semanas y acabé tocando demasiado rápido.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Jazz, Week

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• I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Thinking, Mind

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• Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

  Paul Desmond

  Writing, Talking, Taught

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• I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

  Paul Desmond

  Música, Musical, Jazz

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• La complejidad puede ser una trampa. Puedes pasártelo en grande desarrollando una frase, invirtiéndola, tocándola en diferentes tonos y tiempos y todo eso. Pero en realidad es más introspectivo que comunicativo. Como un crucigrama comparado con un poema.

  Paul Desmond

  Keys, Different, Balls

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• Milton, de entre toda la gente, dio la definición más perfecta del estado mental necesario para tocar jazz: "con atención desenfrenada y astucia vertiginosa". Así es como se toca el jazz.

  Paul Desmond

  Play, People, Perfect

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• I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Father, Age

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• Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

  Paul Desmond

  Glasses, Tunes, Want

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• It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.

  Paul Desmond

  Solo, Supposed To Be

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• We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

  Paul Desmond

  Years, Dave, Used

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• Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.'

  Paul Desmond

  New York, Reading, Home

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• Nuestra audiencia básica comienza con tipos chirriantes de edad avanzada de veintitrés y más.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Elderly, Twenties

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• I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

  Paul Desmond

  Sleep, Wrestling, Rooms

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• We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.

  Paul Desmond

  Style, Going Out, Jazz

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• I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red.

  Paul Desmond

  Memorable, House, Purpose

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