Stephane Grappelli quotes

Stephane Grappelli quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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 Grappelli

Source : Matt Glaser, Stephane Grappelli (1981). “Jazz Violin”, p.63, Oak Publications

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“Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God”
-- Stephane Grappelli

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“[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.”
-- Stephane Grappelli

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