Lovely little collection of jazz quotes at photomatt.net .. some of my favourites being:
Playing bop is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
(.. implying that you need to get rhythm down to score well?)
Those songs to me don’t exist, you know? “So What” or Kind of Blue, I’m not going to play that shit, those things are there. They were done in that era, the right hour, the right day, and it happened. It’s over; it’s on the record.
Keith [Jarrett] played so nice I had to give him two pianos. I’d say “Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?”
I never practice my guitar - from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat.
Coming from Duke Ellington, Miles Davis (twice) and Wes Montgomery, respectively.
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