Dave Kikoski famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.
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For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.
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The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz and otherwise, that you're exposed to. The challenge is to use all that in your own way, to personalize all that has come before you and all that is happening around you. To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.
-- Dave Kikoski
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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.
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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.
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There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
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My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
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