Dave Kikoski quotes
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“To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.”
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“For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.”
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“The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz and otherwise, that you're exposed to. The challenge is to use all that in your own way, to personalize all that has come before you and all that is happening around you. To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.”
-- Dave Kikoski
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Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press
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“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”
Source : "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright", www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.
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“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
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