Jon Hendricks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.
-- Jon Hendricks

#Music #Art #People
Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe.
-- Jon Hendricks

#Woe #Jazz #Trouble
Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.
-- Jon Hendricks

#Order #Play #Way

Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

Jon Hendricks famous quotes

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