Stan Getz Quotes About Jazz

• Puedes leer todos los libros de texto y escuchar todos los discos, pero tienes que tocar con músicos que sean mejores que tú.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Textbooks

• Un buen cuarteto es como una buena conversación entre amigos que interactúan con las ideas de los demás.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Ideas, Jazz

• When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music.

  Stan Getz

  Art, Real, Dedication

• 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.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Spring, Perfection

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

• Hay cuatro cualidades esenciales para un gran jazzista: gusto, coraje, individualidad e irreverencia.

  Stan Getz

  Individuality, Quality, Essentials

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

  Stan Getz

  Music, Art, Giving

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

  Stan Getz

  Music, People, Soul

• 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.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Alphabet, Jazz

• El saxofón es un instrumento imperfecto, sobre todo el tenor y el soprano, en cuanto a entonación. El reto es cantar con un instrumento imperfecto que está fuera de tu cuerpo.

  Stan Getz

  Challenges, Body, Saxophone

• Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

  Stan Getz

  Records, Want, Jazz

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

  Stan Getz

  Music, Cameras, Jazz

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

  Stan Getz

  Music, Lying, Believe

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

  Stan Getz

  Music, Perfection, Jazz And Life

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

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

  Stan Getz

  Music, Records, Jazz

• Vengo de una época en la que no utilizábamos instrumentos electrónicos. Ni siquiera se amplificaban los bajos. El sonido era el que había.

  Stan Getz

  Sound, Use, Bass

• He tocado en bandas de rumba, de mickey mouse, de todo tipo.

  Stan Getz

  Band, Jazz, Kind

• Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

  Stan Getz

  Kids, Choices, Radio

• I learn something new every day.

  Stan Getz

  Jazz, Something New

• Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

  Stan Getz

  Art, Piano, Years

• 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.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Voice

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