Mike Stern famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.
-- Mike Stern

#Musical #Gigs #Jazz
"The main thing is to play your heart out and whatever helps you to do that is the right way".
-- Mike Stern

#Heart #Play #Way
I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.
-- Mike Stern

#Passion #Grease #Guarantees
When I hire musicians, I look for that first: every time they sit down do they go for it, you know? And do they try to learn the music and try to get inside the song whatever the tune is? Whether it's my originals or someone else's, it's just whether or not they're gonna play their hearts out, first and foremost.
-- Mike Stern

#Song #Heart #Play

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after youâ€™re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.
The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.
I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.
I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.
We must be as pure as our music.
If people don't like my music now, they will.
Jazz is the music of the body.
I was totally into jazz in my teens.

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