Zoot Sims famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.
-- Zoot Sims

#Music #Long #Mouths
If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.
-- Zoot Sims

#Music #Play #People
My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
-- Zoot Sims

#Music #Mom #Reeds
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.
-- Zoot Sims

#Music #White #Jazz
If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.
-- Zoot Sims

#Play #Hungry #Ifs
We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.
-- Zoot Sims

#Daddy #Records #Made
I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it.
-- Zoot Sims

#Play #People #Tunes

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.
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.
So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.
In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

Zoot Sims famous quotes

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