Quotes about Stan Getz

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still...

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The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation...

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Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

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My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy...

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Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a...

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If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like...

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I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

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I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even...

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I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

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As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the...

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A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

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You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

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