"I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They don't need a producer to come in there and tell them, "Oh, I think you should do this." I've always found it very strange that there's been such a thing as producers in jazz."

-- Christian McBride

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.”
“Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats. I can't shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me ... I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.”
“A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.”
“Every principle that wants to command strong allegiance must make a moral case. Men want to feel that what they are doing is useful, but they want also, and mainly, to feel that it is right. Freedom is one of these principles”

Source : Henry Christopher Wallich (1960). “The Cost of Freedom: Conservatism and Modern Capitalism”
“Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.”
“...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”
“Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.”

Source : Karl Abraham (1968). “Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones”
“When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.”

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