{"id":2251,"date":"2010-11-27T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2010-11-27T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T09:04:00","slug":"compatible_quotes_lester_young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/11\/compatible_quotes_lester_young\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes: Lester Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Well, the way I play, I try not to be a &#8216;repeater pencil&#8217;, ya dig? Originality&#8217;s the thing.   You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain&#8217;t really nowhere. Gotta be original<\/em>.&#151;Lester Young<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.<\/em>&#151;Billie Holiday<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.<\/em>&#151;Lee Konitz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Anyone who doesn&#8217;t play like Lester Young is wrong.<\/em>&#151;Brew Moore<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the way I play, I try not to be a &#8216;repeater pencil&#8217;, ya dig? Originality&#8217;s the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain&#8217;t really nowhere. Gotta be original.&#151;Lester Young When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}