Quotes by Chick Corea - Page 1

Only a spiritual being has awareness.
Chick Corea / Jazz Pianist
Awareness
Spiritual
Spiritual Beings
Being
Only
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You've got to create the space, then fill it.
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Space
Musician
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I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular.
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Artist
Song
Why
Gets
Popular
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Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.
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Body
Getting Old
Sadness
Talking
Old
Getting
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I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.
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Art
College
Decided
Liberal Arts
My Time
Want
Arts
Spend
Liberal
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My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.
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Musician
Singers
Wife
Bond
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Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
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Fact
In Fact
Inundated
Opinions
Subject
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The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
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Magnificent
Musical
Orchestra
Sound
Most
Ever
Existed
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You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.
Chick Corea / Jazz Pianist
Zero
Attention
Extra
Number
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People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.
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Music Business
Records
Business Music People
Compete
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I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.
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Teacher
Because
Myself Me Doing
Actually
Teacher Myself Me
Doing
Call
Studying
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It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.
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Audio
Files
Youtube
Accessible
Popular
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I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.
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Adventurous
Audience
Likes
Seems
Mode
Noticed
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I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.
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Music
Mean
People
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When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.
Chick Corea / Jazz Pianist
New York
High School
Jam
Session
Meet
Musicians
Standard
Tune
York
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My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.
Chick Corea / Jazz Pianist
Learning
Elements
One Thing
Students
Want
Interested
Continue
Student
Element
Master
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When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.
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Arc
Played
Hear
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You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.
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Creating
Form
Fun
Joy
Above
Anything
Anything Else
Art Form
Create
High
Else
Picasso
Rembrandt
Something
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It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.
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Audience
Constant
Every Night
Musical
Across
Arrangement
Challenge
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I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
Chick Corea / Jazz Pianist
Education
Chance
Men
Monk
Night
Play
Six
University
Weeks
Watch
Quartet
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Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it deconstructively. That's the most fun, but I can only do that when I'm on my own.
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Fun
Instance
My Own
Spain
Rendition
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It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.
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Music
Blue
Play
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Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
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Doubt
Long
Long Term
Musical
Our Lives
Partners
Together
Love Music Together
Friendships
Relationships
Richest
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The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.
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Ancient
Book
Chinese
Religions
Philosophies
Sings
Studying
Title
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I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.
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Truth
Feel Good
Simple
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I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
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Band
Guitar
Playing Music
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If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.
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Growth
Honored
Jazz
Natural
Outside
Sings
Small Part
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I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
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Band
Saxophone
Wonderful
Music Guitar Me
Drums
Wonderful Thing
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You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.
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Queens
Brooklyn
Cities
Creativity
Different Ways
Jersey
Manhattan
School
Bubbling
Experimenting
Musicians
Schools
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It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind we're in it together.
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Music
Artist
Creating
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It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together.
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Artist
Brotherhood
Creating
Creation
Difficult
Dislike
Joy
Matter
Together
Feel
Like
Very
Me
He
Experiencing
Fact
Makes
Some
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I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.
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Being Done
Interested
Thoroughly
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I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general.
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Development
Jazz
Relation
Absorb
Added
General
Tastes
Equation
Guess
Search
Sings
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Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.
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Born
Careers
Heard
Icons
Inspiration
Miles
Solo
Life Me My Life
Davis
Album
Career
Followed
Icon
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Every time I see a musician - it doesn't matter what age - that inspires me, there's always a secret little wish that maybe we'll play together, because that's how I learn and grow and so forth, you know. But hopefully there's a lot more.
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Age
Inspire
Matter
Musician
Play
Secret
Together
Wish
Time Always Together
Little
Time Age Me
Lot
Time Age Together
Every Time
Forth
Inspires
Learn
Maybe
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I like Stevie Wonder as my favorite non-pianist pianist. I mean, I shouldn't call him a non-pianist, because he's really a great pianist, but he doesn't feature it that much - he uses his keyboards and his piano technique to support his great songs and so forth, but he can really blow.
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Blow
Pianist
Support
Technique
Wonder
Call
Favorite
Stevie
Feature
Forth
Great Songs
Stevie Wonder
Uses
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I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.
Chick Corea / Jazz Pianist
America
Cuba
Love Is
Puerto Rico
Rico
South America
Traveled
Love Music Where
Love Music Love Is
Africa
Based
Basis
Nearly
Times
Few
Point
Puerto
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As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for it. Dustin Hoffman is one of the guys that sets a model for me, because of how good he is at being such different characters. Every time you see DeNiro, he's pretty much DeNiro - great, but DeNiro. Hoffman is different every time, depending on his character. That's how I see myself as a performer.
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Character
Guy
Musician
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My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.
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Dad
Piano
Player
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