Citações que ficaram na história do jazz

Já alguma vez se lembrou daquela citação famosa produzida por um jazzman mas não conseguiu reproduzi-la?

Pois bem, neste site (www.jazzbrat.com) é possível encontrar algumas das afirmações que fizeram história. Não é totalmente completo, mas já é alguma coisa. Se alguém encontrar melhor são bem-vindos outros endereços.

Esta do Ira Gershwin é fundamental: "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella sing them."

Entretanto, aqui ficam algumas citações famosas produzidas pelos grande nomes do jazz.



Duke Ellington

"There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind."

"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

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



Count Basie

"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune."



Miles Davis

"If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!"

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later."



Ella Fitzgerald

"The only thing better than singing is more singing."



Louis Armstrong

"A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered."

"All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."

"Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is."



Ornette Coleman

"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time."

"I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs."



John Coltrane

"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."

"During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace."



Dizzy Gillespie

"The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play."



Charlie Parker

"It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible."

"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."