Art Farmer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things.”
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“Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.”
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“When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day...I warm up for an hour before a gig.”
-- Art Farmer
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“If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.”
Source : Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006
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“...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.”
Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.4, Oxford University Press, USA
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Source : Abraham Pais (2005). “Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein”, p.90, Oxford University Press
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