Johnny Griffin quotes
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“I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.”
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“Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.”
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“My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.”
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“My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.”
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“If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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Source : Source: collider.com
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Source : "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.
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“I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.”
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Source : Joe Vitale (2010). “The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons
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“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”
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