Top 29 John Scofield Quotes
#1. Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.
John Scofield
#2. It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us.
D.R. Hedge
#3. It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting.
John Scofield
#4. The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
Jonathan Sacks
#5. Children cannot develop a sense of inner discipline if all of the control comes from the outside.
Babara Coloroso
#6. Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.
John Scofield
#8. My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens
#9. I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.
John Scofield
#12. We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.
John Scofield
#13. I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#14. It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.
John Scofield
#15. I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.
John Scofield
#16. When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.
John Scofield
#17. The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.
John Scofield
#18. How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right." I
Elizabeth Strout
#19. Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
Ben Shapiro
#20. The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.
John Scofield
#21. In this nation, leadership is dollars.
Norman Lear
#22. When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
John Scofield
#23. I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
John Scofield
#24. We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.
Van Jones
#25. The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.
John Scofield
#26. What he had not understood, before battle, was that time could become a ribbon to be looped and pinned back to its center, the petals of a black rosette. I
Chris Cleave
#27. It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Your family is part of who you are.
Sophie Kinsella
#28. It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.
John Scofield
#29. Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing ...
John Scofield
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