Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era from the '20's or bebop from the Swing Era or Avant-garde from Bebop, or Effusion, or on and on and on. So, we don't really know where it's going.

Gary Giddins's Popular Quotes

If you're genuinely candid and expressive then you're never wrong, even when you are wrong.

- Gary Giddins

You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks.

- Gary Giddins

I never really wanted to be a daily critic who goes out every night and writes 300 word reviews, I wanted to write essays. And that gave me the luxur…

- Gary Giddins

I am astounded at my age with a 20-year-old daughter to discover that kids of her generation don't want to watch black and white movies. I understand…

- Gary Giddins

If I'm reviewing a record, man, I play that record to death, which is ironic in a way because if I review a concert I feel very confident in myself, …

- Gary Giddins

Bing Crosby said that Armstrong is "the beginning and the end of music in America," and he wasn't far wrong.

- Gary Giddins

There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the grea…

- Gary Giddins

Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing your craft. That's how…

- Gary Giddins

I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before I heard of jazz. The question is, once you have tha…

- Gary Giddins