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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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