Quotes by Ray Brown - Page 1

People are trading distance for dollars.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Distance
Dollars
Long
People
Trading
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The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Music
Fewer
Jazz
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The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Best
Home
Five
Years
Years Ago
Time Best Always
Time Home Always
Time Best Home
Always
Best Time
Buy
Best Time Home
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Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Depression
Cracks
Worst
Crack
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Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Feels
Jazz
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Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Music
Feels
Jazz
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A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Buyers
Holiday
Yards
Distressed
Sale
Seller
Holidays
Sign
Yard
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They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Awe
Believe
Frightening
Mean
Scary
Rightly
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Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.
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Bigger
Jazz
Lifestyle
Live Life
Me Feel Live
Complete
Just Something
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I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Couple
Long
Long Time
Song
Love Time Long
Old One
Something Else
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I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.
Ray Brown / Bassist
New York
House
Nice
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We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Musician
Practice
Pressure
Time Good Practice
Brings
Reach
Rehearsals
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[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And everybody would go 'Yeah!
Ray Brown / Bassist
Mean
Piano
Player
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The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one and only. He was one of the greatest Blues players that I ever heard and played with. Nobody can play like Sweets man, nobody! Most of us, musicians, frequently quote Sweets' phrases in our solos. Like Lester Young, Sweets had a big influence on us musicians, especially when we play some Blues.
Ray Brown / Bassist
Player
Sweet
Unique
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