Art Pepper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.
-- Art Pepper

#Band #Want #Chance
Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or stashed away doing a life sentence some place. Or running and hiding some place, if I was still alive. I'm certain I wouldn't be playing music. She's just been perfect for me. And she's a protector also; she protects me from myself, from temptations, and bad associations. She's constantly shielding me from walking the red hot coals of existing as a game.
-- Art Pepper

#Running #Women #Bad Ass
Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones.
-- Art Pepper

#Player #Long #People
The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again.
-- Art Pepper

#Bird #Musician #Sound

Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.
We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.
I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
John Cross is feeling very boyish about Arsenal's chances
Failure comes when you donâ€™t listen. You canâ€™t put something out there and assume itâ€™s great. Itâ€™s up to us to make sure weâ€™re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.
He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.

Art Pepper famous quotes

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