Quotes About Stan Getz

#1. I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.

Horace Silver

#2. You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Stan Getz

#3. I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

Stan Getz

#4. You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

Stan Getz

#5. There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

John F. Kennedy

#6. Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

Stan Getz

#7. I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.

Stan Getz

#8. The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

Stan Getz

#9. In Paris, even the subways are required to be beautiful.

Jenny Offill

#10. I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

Stan Getz

#11. We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

Stan Getz

#12. Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Stan Getz

#13. In the past, changing the self and changing the world were often regarded as separate endeavors and viewed in either-or terms. But in the story of the Great Turning, they are recognized as mutually reinforcing and essential to one another.

Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone

#14. The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

Deena Metzger

#15. I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Stan Getz

#16. I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

Stan Getz

#17. There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

Stan Getz

#18. We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

Stan Getz

#19. I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

Stan Getz

#20. I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

Louis Susman

#21. If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

Stan Getz

#22. People think that I play effortlessly. I remember doing a record date with Bill Evans and afterwards he said to me, you make it sound so easy but when I get right up next to you you're working hard and making it sound easy!

Stan Getz

#23. I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

Stan Getz

#24. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Stan Getz

#25. My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

Stan Getz

#26. Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

John Milton

#27. I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Stan Getz

#28. I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.

P. J. O'Rourke

#29. Maybe I'm strange and perverse, but I've always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.

Therese Doucet

#30. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Stan Getz

#31. A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

Roland Barthes

#32. I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

Stan Getz

#33. The day should come when all of the forms of life ... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

William O. Douglas

#34. The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

Donald Miller

#35. The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

Robert A. Heinlein

#36. When I'm alcohol-free now and even to see the world around me, I appreciate it, but I never truly enjoy too much of it maybe because I feel like I'm a working musician. There are some joyous moments, but I will not think a joyous moment.

Stan Getz

#37. You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Stan Getz

#38. My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

Stan Getz

#39. Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Stan Getz

#40. Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.

Stan Getz

#41. A church can ignore the culture only until, as the divorce culture did in the past, that culture reshapes the church in a way that obscures the gospel itself.

Russell D. Moore

#42. A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

Stan Getz