J. J. Johnson quotes

“Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.”
-- J. J. Johnson

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“Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.”
-- J. J. Johnson

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“That Yes, I know what you mean-that is the technical definition of Best Friend Forever.”
-- J. J. Johnson

Source : J. J. Johnson (2015). “The Theory of Everything”, p.39, Open Road Media

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“My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once”
-- J. J. Johnson

Source : J. J. Johnson (2015). “This Girl Is Different”, p.166, Open Road Media

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“I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.”
-- J. J. Johnson

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“There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!”
-- J. J. Johnson

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“There will never come a time when you don't have to practice”
-- J. J. Johnson

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“In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.”
-- J. J. Johnson

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“Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.”

“We must be as pure as our music.”

“Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.”

Source : Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers

“I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.”

“I was totally into jazz in my teens.”

“I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.”

“I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.”

Source : "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

“I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.”

“For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.”

“This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding, ...”