{"id":609,"date":"2006-08-18T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=609"},"modified":"2006-08-18T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T08:06:00","slug":"compatible_quotes_17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/08\/compatible_quotes_17\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When you begin to teach jazz, the most dangerous thing is that you tend to teach style&#8230;I had eleven piano students, and I would say eight of them didn&#8217;t even want to know about chords or anything &#8211; they didn&#8217;t even want to do anything that anybody had ever done, because they didn&#8217;t want to be imitators. Well, of course, this is pretty naive&#8230;but nevertheless it does bring to light the fact that if you&#8217;re going to try to teach jazz&#8230;you must abstract the principles of music which have nothing to do with style, and this is exceedingly difficult. So there, the teaching of jazz is a very touchy point. It ends up where the jazz player, ultimately, if he&#8217;s going to be a serious jazz player, teaches himself.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<strong>Bill Evans <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jazz is like writing. It can be learned, but it can&#8217;t be taught.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<strong>Paul Desmond<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you begin to teach jazz, the most dangerous thing is that you tend to teach style&#8230;I had eleven piano students, and I would say eight of them didn&#8217;t even want to know about chords or anything &#8211; they didn&#8217;t even want to do anything that anybody had ever done, because they didn&#8217;t want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-609","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\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}