top of page
.png){kind=small}
"So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Jazz quotes
"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Miroslav Vitous
"They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer."
Knowledge
"I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything."
Europe
"The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass."
Music
"That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke."
Father
"There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies."
Communication
"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
Jazz
"There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music."
Music
"I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend."
Friendship
"So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument."
Music
"I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova."
Time
bottom of page