{"id":5785,"date":"2014-06-06T21:13:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T04:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5785"},"modified":"2014-06-06T21:13:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T04:13:17","slug":"compatible-quotes-an-occasional-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/06\/compatible-quotes-an-occasional-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes: An Occasional Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;bokOz69Cxl3tXF5TstoZy8RLVwnWLEhm&#8221;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feeling. \u00e2\u20ac\u201dBill Evans<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Originality\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really nowhere. Gotta be original. \u00e2\u20ac\u201dLester Young<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A chimpanzee could learn to do what I do physically. But it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life. \u00e2\u20ac\u201dJaco Pastorius<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t music, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. \u00e2\u20ac\u201dBillie Holiday<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that <em>sh__<\/em> and just play. \u00e2\u20ac\u201dCharlie Parker<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;bokOz69Cxl3tXF5TstoZy8RLVwnWLEhm&#8221;] It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feeling. \u00e2\u20ac\u201dBill Evans Originality\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really nowhere. Gotta be original. \u00e2\u20ac\u201dLester Young A chimpanzee could learn to do what [&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-5785","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\/5785","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=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}