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.
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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.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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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.
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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.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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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.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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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.
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I do everything that everybody else does.
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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.
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I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.
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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.
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We practically own everything in the Philippines.
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I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
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'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.
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The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
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It is easy to react if everything is going great.
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Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
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I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
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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.
