John Abercrombie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.
-- John Abercrombie

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To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.
-- John Abercrombie

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Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.
-- John Abercrombie

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If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
-- John Abercrombie

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Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.
-- John Abercrombie

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The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.
-- John Abercrombie

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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

John Abercrombie famous quotes

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