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Jazz is not background music.
Horace Silver / Jazz Pianist
Background Music
Backgrounds
Jazz
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I'm shooting for longevity. The road is hard on your body.
Horace Silver / Jazz Pianist
Longevity
Shooting
Your Body
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I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.
Horace Silver / Jazz Pianist
Anger
Composition
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Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
Horace Silver / Jazz Pianist
Composition
Joy
Musical
People
Troubles
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Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.
Horace Silver / Jazz Pianist
Music
Jazz
Order
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I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.
Horace Silver / Jazz Pianist
Rhythm
Rhythm Section
Section
Stan
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We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.
Horace Silver / Jazz Pianist
Music
Different
Mind
Trying
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Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.
Horace Silver / Jazz Pianist
Bebop
Broadway
Swings
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I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.
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Achievement
Grateful
Trying
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The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.
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Ensemble
Play
Tunes
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They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.
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Music
Eight
Years
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Good Lord's been kind to me, that's all I can say. I wake up in the morning with music in my head a lot of times. I won't say every morning, but I wake up in the morning sometimes with eight bars in my head and I just go to the piano.
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Morning
Eight
Piano
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I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear?
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Play
Simple
Writing
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Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.
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Music
Bebop
Swings
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I may be prejudiced, but I believe that jazz music has the strongest healing potential, and it's not just because I play it and love it so much. I feel that it's the improvisation in jazz that makes it so strong as a healing tool, what each individual gives to a tune from their heart and their soul when they take a solo. It's all spontaneous, and it's all love, and from the heart.
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Believe
Healing
Strong
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Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it. The harmonies within the music can relax, soothe, relax, and uplift the mind when you concentrate upon and absorb it. Jazz music stimulates the minds and uplifts the souls of those who play it was well as of those who listen to immerse themselves in it. As the mind is stimulated and the soul uplifted, this is eventually reflected in the body.
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Music
Uplifting
Order
Play
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