You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.
Stan GetzWhen I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music.
Stan GetzA good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
Stan GetzItโs like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. Itโs a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something Iโve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And thatโs what jazz music is all about.
Stan Getz