Lennie Tristano famous quotes
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The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.
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You could make your fingers reproduce exactly what you felt, if you really worked at it. I achieved it, not only spending a lot of time at the keyboard but finding ways I could make my fingers reproduce my deepest feelings. It meant, when you hit a note with a finger, you sank into that note all the way to the bottom of the keyboard until it went pow! Right?...
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It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.
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The jazz musician’s function is to feel,
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Dave Frank is one of the few people that can REALLY play!
-- Lennie Tristano
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.
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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
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I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.
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If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.
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When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.
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Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.
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The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.
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Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something.
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