Ahmad Jamal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
-- Ahmad Jamal

#Music #Jazz #Scholar
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
-- Ahmad Jamal

#Music #Artist #Jazz
The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
-- Ahmad Jamal

#Music #People #Way
Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
-- Ahmad Jamal

#Music #Mean #Practice
Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background,
-- Ahmad Jamal

#Self #Self Respect #Students
You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
-- Ahmad Jamal

#People #Down And #Might
I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.
-- Ahmad Jamal

#Piano #Choices #Three

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.
I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
We must be as pure as our music.
Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.
I would say that jazz is my own language.
Jazz is the music of the body.
Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

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