Citas de Jazz

• Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

  Charles Mingus

  Música, Escritura, Juego

  "An Open Letter To Miles Davis". Charles Mingus, Downbeat Magazine, November 30, 1955.

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• Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

  B. B. King

  Brother, School, College

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• A veces hay que jugar mucho tiempo para poder jugar como uno mismo.

  Miles Davis

  Música, Guitarra, Yo

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• El jazz es la única música en la que se puede tocar la misma nota noche tras noche, pero cada vez de forma diferente.

  Ornette Coleman

  Música, Memorable, Noche

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• 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

  Funny, Music, Girl

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• Me ha llevado toda la vida aprender lo que no hay que tocar.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Música, Tomar, Jugar

  Citado en N Hentoff Jazz Is (1978).

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• If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

  Count Basie

  Music, Night, Play

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• Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Philosophical, Play

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Mar 10, 2015

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• 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

  Music, Years, Play

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• 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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• Cuando muera, quiero que toquen The Black and Crazy Blues, que me incineren, que me metan en una bolsa de marihuana y que la gente guapa me fume y espere haber sacado algo de ello.

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Music, Beautiful, Crazy

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• You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

  Miles Davis

  Music, Play, Horns

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• El jazz no es música de fondo. Hay que concentrarse en él para sacarle el máximo partido.
  Hay que absorber la mayor parte. Las armonías de la música pueden relajar, tranquilizar y elevar la mente cuando uno se concentra en ella y la absorbe.
  mente cuando te concentras en ella y la absorbes. La música de jazz estimula las mentes y eleva las almas
  tanto de quienes la tocan como de quienes la escuchan para sumergirse en ella. Cuando la mente
  Cuando la mente se estimula y el alma se eleva, esto se refleja en el cuerpo.

  Horace Plata

  Music, Uplifting, Order

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• Jazz is what I play for a living.

  Louis Armstrong

  Juego, Jazz

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• La música jazz es un sentimiento intensificado de despreocupación.

  Françoise Sagan

  Feelings, Nonchalance, Music Is

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• En mi música, intento interpretar la verdad de lo que soy.

  Charles Mingus

  Play, Trying, Jazz And Life

  Charles Mingus' statement to Nat Hentoff as quoted in Anthony Fawcett "California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California" (p. 56), 1979, and in "Jazz: Beyond Time and Nations" in Nat Hentoff "The Nat Hentoff Reader" (p. 99), October 17, 2001.

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• To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Mean, Play

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• Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Missing You, Scrabble

  1954 In Look, 10 Aug.

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• No toques lo que hay, toca lo que no hay.

  Miles Davis

  Música, Juego, Afroamericano

  Revista "SPIN", (p. 30), diciembre de 1990.

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• Nunca toques nada de la misma manera dos veces.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Play, Way

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• Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Past, Self

  Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.13, Random House

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• La música es mi dueña y no le hace ascos a nadie.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Marriage, Work

  Music Is My Mistress acto 8 "Pedestrian Minstrel" (1973)

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• No toques el saxofón. Deja que te toque a ti.

  Charlie Parker

  Motivacional, Música, Humor

  "Palabras de sabiduría". Libro editado por William Safire y Leonard Safir, p. 435, 1990.

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• Domina tu instrumento. Domina la música. Y luego olvídate de toda esa mierda y simplemente toca.

  Charlie Parker

  Música, Jugar, Tonterías

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• Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.

  George Benson

  Change, Music, Thinking

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