Gary Giddins Quotes

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

Gary Giddins

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• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Kids
  • Everything
  • Sorry

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Everything
  • Committee

• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Jazz

• Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Music
  • Everything
  • Evolve

• I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Everything

• It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Music
  • Universe
  • Everything

• Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Kindness

• It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Government
  • Everything
  • U.S.

• I do everything that everybody else does.

  

  Vanna White
  • Everything
  • Everybody Else

• Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Man
  • Year
  • Jazz

• I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Dresses

• I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Feel
  • Everything
  • Very

• We practically own everything in the Philippines.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Everything
  • Own
  • Philippines

• I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Everything
  • Keep
  • Somewhat

• 'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.

  

  Sampha
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Leave

• My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do everything for him.

  

  Xochi Birch
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Great
  • Song

• There's always an excitement around the Strip whenever something new being built. It was always the biggest and the best hotel or, you know, over-the-top things. And so, family would be coming in from out of town, and it was such a thrill to be showing them this, you know, erupting new volcano or whatever it was.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Excitement
  • Strip
  • Being built

• Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Art
  • Home
  • Selfishness

• I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Family
  • Game
  • Career

• Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

  

  Gary Giddins
  • Everything
  • Emotion
  • Jazz