Teddy Wilson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.
-- Teddy Wilson

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Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
-- Teddy Wilson

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If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.
-- Teddy Wilson

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I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.
-- Teddy Wilson

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[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.
-- Teddy Wilson

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Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.
Whether itâ€™s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through oneâ€™s own eyes-which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification- which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.
May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.
The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

Teddy Wilson famous quotes

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