Stephane Grappelli quotes
-
“Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.”
-- Stephane GrappelliSource : Matt Glaser, Stephane Grappelli (1981). “Jazz Violin”, p.63, Oak Publications
-
“Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God”
-- Stephane Grappelli -
“[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.”
-- Stephane Grappelli
-
Source : Source: www.djbooth.net
-
“Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?”
-
“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
-
Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
-
“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
You may also like:
-
Baden Powell de Aquino
Guitarist -
Barney Kessel
Guitarist -
Benny Carter
Saxophonist -
Coleman Hawkins
Saxophonist -
David Grisman
Composer -
Duke Ellington
Composer -
George Shearing
Pianist -
Joe Pass
Guitarist -
Michel Legrand
Composer -
Nigel Kennedy
Violinist -
Oscar Peterson
Jazz Pianist -
Toots Thielemans
Jazz Musician -
Yehudi Menuhin
Violinist -
Mark O'Connor
Violinist