Wayne Shorter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Music is interior decoration.
-- Wayne Shorter

#Music #Music Is #Decoration
I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
-- Wayne Shorter

#Music #Thinking #Jazz
Composing is improvisation slowed down.
-- Wayne Shorter

#Music #Jazz #Composing
The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
-- Wayne Shorter

#Art #Creativity #Doors
No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
-- Wayne Shorter

#Unexpected #Deals
To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
-- Wayne Shorter

#Music #Jazz #Hell
Itâ€™s making a statement about what life is, really. And Iâ€™m going to end the line with it.
-- Wayne Shorter

#Lines #Life Is #Ends
Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'
-- Wayne Shorter

#Mean #Sound #Jazz
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
-- Wayne Shorter

#Music #Guy #Actors
Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
-- Wayne Shorter

#Music #Clouds #Patterns
If all you have is music, then you don't have music
-- Wayne Shorter

#Musician
You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
-- Wayne Shorter

#Girl #Shadow #Drawers
In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.
-- Wayne Shorter

#Play #Way #Instruments

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