J. J. Johnson Quotes

In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.

J. J. Johnson

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• Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

  

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• I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.

  

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• I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

  

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• 'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.

  

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• I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

  

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• I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

  

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• In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Hearing
  • Dizzy
  • Charlie Parker