Jazz Quotes
Fellow blogger Photo Matt, and by fellow I mean someone who actually writes things, has ben collecting quotes from Jazz Musicians. It’s a great collection. I like this one from Miles Davis, about how he was always creating new kinds of music.
“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.”
From Coltrane, about what a musician is trying to do:
“Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music.”