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Topic: Who said that?

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M. Y. M.	Miles on Kenny G. December 11, 2006 10:40 AM Now, i don't know if it's true that Miles said it, but I do know it's true that McCoy told me this story personally. So McCoy said to me that Miles said about Kenny G., "Man, you could hang that dude by a rope and he still wouldn't swing!" [ send green star] [ accepted]
Watercarrier X.	space is the place November 06, 2006 9:49 PM THIS is the s p a c e a g e the age b e y o n d the Earth Age a different direction b e y o n d the gravitations of the past THIS is the s p a c e a g e this disguised TWIN of TOMORROW striking upon the Earth with relentless power like a perpetual whip. this IS the s p a c e a g e... Prepare for the journey! Y O U have a rendezvous with the Living Wisdom of the Unadulterated Fate. Prepare for the journey! Like a happy child you will s t e p o u t of the pages of the Blinding Blend of the Book, and g a z e a s t o u n d e d at the E N D L E S S S P A C E of the COSMO-VOID. Your new course is the Cosmic Way... Your new vehicle is the Cosmic Plane; You are to reach / approach the Omni-Cosmo Way You will learn to journey with courage... with Fiery Aim to Find the even greater day of the even greater tomorrow. The C O S M O - T I M E L E S S Realm of the Omni-Evolution-Immortalic Day. - Sun Ra - [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	May 28, 2006 6:15 PM A master drummer must have seven eyes. ~ African proverb [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	Abbey Lincoln says May 12, 2006 7:43 PM "I don't know what's before us. No one knows. It's sobering, but we're still all-powerful human beings. If you can keep hope, you can live on. And there's the music-it always leaves footprints in the sand." [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	May 07, 2006 2:43 PM If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. -- Louis Armstrong [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	April 27, 2006 4:50 PM I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. ~ Dizzy Gillespie [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	April 24, 2006 11:00 AM "Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains." ~ Paul Whiteman [ send green star] [ accepted]
Guenter H.	definitions April 24, 2006 12:22 AM Hi, Bonnie! We´ve been discussing the "borderline question" on a parallel string - the answers are all here, LOL. Thank you for the quotes, Gun [ send green star] [ accepted]
Arthur C.	April 23, 2006 11:11 AM where do find all these quotes? marvelous, simply marvelous. thank you. [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	April 23, 2006 10:26 AM It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate. ~ Julie London [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	April 19, 2006 7:21 AM Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. ~ Nina Simone [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	April 19, 2006 7:07 AM Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. ~ Paul Desmond [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	April 18, 2006 11:12 AM Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road. ~ Peggy Lee [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	frank zappa says... April 18, 2006 7:20 AM Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny” [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	louis armstrong says..... April 14, 2006 1:44 PM “If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.” [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	-- Bix Beiderbecke April 06, 2006 1:47 PM One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you? [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	April 05, 2006 6:25 PM I know that a lot of you critics think I've been fluffing off jazz. But I'm even more interested in it now than I ever was. ~ Nat King Cole [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	this man died young in a car crash.. loved his bass playing April 04, 2006 6:34 PM Scott LaFaro: "I don’t like to look back, because the whole point in jazz is doing it now" [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	OUCH OUCH OUCH !!!!!!! March 29, 2006 2:17 PM « Return to other jazz quotes “I’ve never heard anything Wynton (Marsalis) played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me… He’s jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.” [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	oh i love that betty quote i do.heres one more from ms carter! March 25, 2006 7:59 PM This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing. Betty Carter [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	Yo Estelle! March 23, 2006 6:42 PM After me there are no more jazz singers... It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever. ~ Betty Carter [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	cheeky quote from art blakey.. March 23, 2006 6:38 PM Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	yo bonnie... March 20, 2006 4:51 PM I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	March 20, 2006 4:47 PM "I get to the Cotton Club about nine o'clock. We played dance music up until about eleven or twelve. Then we put on a show." ~ Cab Calloway [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	March 19, 2006 4:47 PM I'm the only guy in the jazz business who made it without any talent! ~ Bob Crosby [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	March 18, 2006 8:37 PM wrong is right... thelonius monk [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	like that one bonnie... March 18, 2006 8:35 PM feels like it needs an added stick to the day job on the end of it... [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	March 18, 2006 4:22 PM Ahhhhh, it good to know our posts are not falling on deaf ears. (or is that eyes?) biggestgrin Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches. ~ Wynton Marsalis [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	hee hee March 18, 2006 10:02 AM nothing wrong with that eric lol xx [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Eric A.	March 16, 2006 9:10 PM aaah hell I got it backwards -----LOL- might explian my problem --LOL [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	charlie parker says..... March 16, 2006 6:34 PM “Master your instrument, Master the music, and then forget all that *!xy!@ and just play.” [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	March 13, 2006 3:06 PM What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun. Sarah Vaughan [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	OH GEE BONNY LOOK! ERIC IS HERE TOO!!!!! March 11, 2006 6:56 AM "I have from time to time been worried about the quote-unquote jazz police," ... CASSANDRA WILSON [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Eric A.	March 10, 2006 7:02 PM Robin Trower, when asked why he declined to join Clapton and others on a Jimi Hendrix tribute album said; ‘If you can’t do it better than the original then you just sound like another bar band doing cover tunes’ [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	March 10, 2006 6:21 PM Well, if I could play like Wynton (Marsalis), I wouldn't play like Wynton. ~ Chet Baker [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	howdy gal! u and me again doing our thang here! March 08, 2006 7:10 PM "Rather than simply say, I play jazz, I say I play music."Kenny Garret [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	March 06, 2006 5:30 PM Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men. ~ Lionel Hampton [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	March 04, 2006 9:44 PM "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie "YardBird" Parker [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	March 04, 2006 12:30 PM "I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy." ~ Billy Eckstine [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	hello there missus !!! March 04, 2006 6:02 AM I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns. Ella Fitzgerald [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	March 03, 2006 5:29 PM “I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.” ~ Tony Bennett [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	thelonius monk March 02, 2006 4:48 PM “I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public want — you play what you want and let the public pick ..." [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	March 02, 2006 4:43 PM I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it. ~ Diana Krall [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	March 01, 2006 6:20 PM I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. —Jack Kerouac [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	March 01, 2006 5:42 PM “You can play a shoestring if you're sincere” ~ John Coltrane [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	SONNY ROLLINS SAYS..... February 28, 2006 5:17 PM I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	February 28, 2006 1:43 PM "Everybody has to go through a lot in jazz and in art to arrive where they want to." ~ Dave Brubeck [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	i have reactivated this topic February 28, 2006 10:20 AM as there are some wonderful quotes here....please feel free to add more....one of mine for what it's worth.. it's what you don't play that counts.. somebody has probably said that already !! [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	October 02, 2005 4:19 PM . Thanks so much for that quote, Caitlin. I loved Carmen McCrae! . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Caitlin B.	October 02, 2005 10:15 AM "Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread-without it, it's flat." Carmen McCrae [ send green star] [ accepted]
Eduardo L.	Charles Mingus August 28, 2005 10:35 AM “Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker’s next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?” [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 12, 2005 6:39 AM . Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. ~ Edward Gardner . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 11, 2005 6:02 AM . Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first. ~ Josh Billings . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 10, 2005 4:39 AM . Don't play what's there, play what's not there. ~ Miles Davis . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 09, 2005 5:12 AM . "Pianists must be taught. If a man has no technique, if he has been self-taught, you'll hear it said that he has an open mind. Not true. He has only grooved himself." ~ Oscar Peterson . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 08, 2005 5:12 AM . "Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms." ~ Keith Jarrett . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 07, 2005 5:50 AM . The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. ~ Bobby McFerrin . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 06, 2005 4:50 AM . "I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business." ~ Shirley Bassey . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 04, 2005 6:34 AM . “Dance music—as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper… a windshield wiper that’s fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing ‘Melancholy Baby’ and you’ve got dance music.” ~ Artie Shaw . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 03, 2005 6:05 AM . "If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." ~ Billie Holiday . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 02, 2005 5:29 AM . I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth. ~ Barbra Streisand . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	August 01, 2005 4:47 AM . “If there’s any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.” ~ Elvin Jones . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 31, 2005 4:23 AM . Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. ?? ~ Bette Midler . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 30, 2005 5:15 AM . “A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!” ~ Cannonball Adderley . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 29, 2005 5:43 AM . “Perhaps it is a peculiarity of mine that despite the fact that I am a professional performer, it is true that I have always preferred playing without an audience.” ~ Bill Evans? . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 28, 2005 6:21 AM . “Well, I’m too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I’m just gon’ keep playin’” ~ Clark Terry . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 27, 2005 3:29 AM . “At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.” ~ Ellis Marsalis . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 26, 2005 11:24 AM . Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted. ~ Sammy Davis Jr . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 25, 2005 6:02 AM . God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there? ~ Whitney Houston . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 24, 2005 5:18 AM . If it calls for a Madison or a Twist, I'll do it. And if it calls for a tone row or anything in surreal music I'll do that, too. But the dance band is what has given me the kind of little edge towards the jazz field. ~ Henry Mancini [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 23, 2005 4:40 AM . By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight. ~ Glenn Miller [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 22, 2005 5:33 AM . “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.” ~ Charlie Parker . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 21, 2005 6:17 AM . “Music washes away the dust of every day life.” ~ Art Blakey . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 20, 2005 5:59 AM . “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 . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 19, 2005 6:37 AM . “You get that right tickin’ rhythm, man, and its ON!” ~ Fats Waller . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 18, 2005 5:11 AM . “Don’t bullshit… just play.” ~ Wynton Marsalis . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 17, 2005 5:37 AM . “[On bebop years] All I did was sing ‘How High the Moon.’ It seemed like the only song I ever sang.” ~ Ella Fitzgerald . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 16, 2005 5:09 AM . “Life is a lot like jazz. . . it’s best when you improvise. . .” ~ George Gershwin . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 15, 2005 4:49 AM . “Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.” ~ Dizzy Gillespie . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Guenter H.	July 14, 2005 8:08 AM Play the notes straight, when you get older the vibrato comes all by itself. Wynton´s father Joe Marsalis [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 14, 2005 7:01 AM . “Master your instrument, Master the music, and then forget all that *!xy!@ and just play.” ~ Charlie Parker . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 13, 2005 5:53 AM . “There is no accounting for jazz singers, that is to say, singers who suffer from the dangerous delusion that they are jazz singers.” ~ Benny Green . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 12, 2005 5:10 AM . “Man, as long as people want to hear jazz, I’ll give it to them.” ~ Lionel Hampton . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 11, 2005 4:50 AM . “‘Swing’ is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a ’swing band’ in music.” ~ Artie Shaw . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 10, 2005 5:54 AM . Bop is no love-child of jazz. ~ Charlie Parker . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 09, 2005 6:17 AM . I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world. ~ Tony Bennett . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 08, 2005 5:11 AM . "I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini." ~ Paul Desmond . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 07, 2005 8:47 AM . "Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear." ~ Frank Sinatra . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 06, 2005 5:48 AM . "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 . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 05, 2005 5:09 AM . "I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch." ~ Count Basie . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 04, 2005 5:06 AM . "Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them." ~ Louis Armstrong . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 03, 2005 5:58 AM . "Rather than simply say, I play jazz, I say I play music." ~ Kenny Garret . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	In Memory July 02, 2005 4:41 AM . "I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period. " ~ Luther Vandross . [ send green star] [ accepted]
John B.	July 01, 2005 6:26 AM "Music should always be an adventure." ~ Coleman Hawkins [ send green star] [ accepted]
John B.	July 01, 2005 6:21 AM "I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat." ~ Wes Montgomery [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	July 01, 2005 5:44 AM The louder they play (the band) the softer I sing. ~ Joe Williams . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	June 30, 2005 5:09 AM I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one. ~ Glenn Miller . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	June 29, 2005 9:08 AM May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. ~ Frank Sinatra . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	June 28, 2005 4:59 AM . If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. ~ Louis Armstrong . [ send green star] [ accepted]
John B.	June 27, 2005 1:55 PM "I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was." ~ Paul Desmond [ send green star] [ accepted]
John B.	June 27, 2005 1:53 PM “Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.” ~Johnny Griffin [ send green star] [ accepted]
John B.	June 27, 2005 1:49 PM “When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone, in the air, you can never capture it again.” ~ Eric Dolphy [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	June 27, 2005 5:06 AM Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. ~ Paul Whiteman . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	June 26, 2005 5:55 AM "Life is a lot like jazz. . . it’s best when you improvise. . ." ~ George Gershwin . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	June 25, 2005 12:12 PM You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. ~ Billie Holiday . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	June 24, 2005 5:21 AM I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.. ~ Nat King Cole . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	June 23, 2005 7:16 AM "Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good it does." ~ Wynton Marsalis [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	June 22, 2005 5:59 AM "I don't have a definition of jazz...You're just supposed to know it when you hear it." ~ Thelonious Monk . [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	June 21, 2005 6:06 AM "I am not a blues singer. I am not a jazz singer. I am not a country singer. But I am a singer who can sing the blues, who can sing jazz, who can sing country." ~ Ray Charles [ send green star] [ accepted]
Bonnie C.	Who said that? June 20, 2005 5:41 AM “It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line.” ~ Duke Ellington . [ send green star] [ accepted]