What did Stan Getz mean by: We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. - Stan Getz Musician Copy
+ A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other’s ideas. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stan Getz, Ideas, Jazz, Music, 0 - Stan Getz Musician
+ If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it’s like the human voice. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stan Getz, Saxophone, Voice, 0 - Stan Getz Musician
+ I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won’t come out. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stan Getz, Believe, Lying, Music, 0 - Stan Getz Musician
+ I’ve done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize? Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stan Getz, Apologizing, 0 - Stan Getz Musician
+ I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stan Getz, Eight, 0 - Stan Getz Musician
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. - Frank Zappa Musician · USA
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski Conductor · United Kingdom
Don’t only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. - W. H. Auden Poet · England
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. - Hermann von Helmholtz
History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. - Jean-Henri Fabre Entomologist · France
History is not a suicide note — it is a record of our survival. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England