Stan Getz Music Quotations

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

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

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

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.