I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. - Stan Getz
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
- Stan Getz
I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out. - Stan Getz
I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.
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'… - Stan Getz
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'…
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas. - Stan Getz
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul. - Stan Getz
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.
There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. - Stan Getz
There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. - Stan Getz
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously wit… - Stan Getz
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously wit…
You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to t… - Stan Getz
You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to t…
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