Phil Woods famous quotes

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Tim Price is one of the real ones ! A good friend and a great player !
-- Phil Woods

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Denise Donatelli is a musicianâ€™s singer!
-- Phil Woods

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I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning.
-- Phil Woods

#Warrior #Pride #Flames
Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.
-- Phil Woods

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Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.
-- Phil Woods

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Listen to music you don't even like and see why you don't like it.
-- Phil Woods

#Listening To Music

The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much. Better to begin practice without delay. I am like aÂ good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.
My music lives because of real players.
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.
Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.

Phil Woods famous quotes

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