Clark Terry quotes
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“I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.”
-- Clark Terry -
“Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.”
-- Clark Terry -
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“Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.”
-- Clark Terry -
“Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'”
-- Clark Terry -
“Your mind is a positive asset. Use it for positive thoughts.”
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“I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.”
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“[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to him, you say 'yes, that's Sweets' and you automatically smile. This is really unique. He changed the way how to play this instrument.”
-- Clark Terry
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2
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Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”
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