#jazz musician

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#creates #ear #him #his #i

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#always #far #greater #i #jazz

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#basis #chef #cuisine #exciting #go

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#any #being #clubs #death #die

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#anything #controversial #discriminatory #europe #fact