Miquel Portet
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"I used to practice anywhere from four to eight hours a day when I first started, from the age of thirteen to when I was about twenty-four."
Elvin Jones (Notes and Tones by Art Taylor)
"The time is essential. That's non-negotiable."
Elvin Jones (Down Beat - March 1963)
"I always listen to what I can leave out." Miles Davis
"I used to practice eight hours a day, every day! From about 1956 until about 1962. It was a whole thing, a whole period in my life where nothing else was happening."
Tony Williams (Notes and Tones by Art Taylor)
"Drumming is like an evolutionay pattern."
Tony Williams (Modern Drummer - June 1984)
"Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts: I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing..."
John Scofield
"First of all, you have to want to play for the song. You have to enjoy doing that. Then you'll start seeing the musical value and fulfillment in that. You'll sense it, feel it, and know it. You'll sense the synergy in it."
Vinnie Colaiuta (Modern Drummer - March 2007)
"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere"John Coltrane
"I don't push a band. I cushion it."
Mel Lewis
"As the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time."
Bill Evans
"Everyone is the time keeper"
"If you enjoy a lot when you practice, you are not practicing well"
"When you are transcribing, everything is important; from the softest to the loudest note."
Ed Soph (Notes Importants d'en Miquel Portet - Febrer 2012)
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
Ella Fitzgerald
"I'm a jazz musician and, that flexibility that I get from jazz, allows me to follow so many other loves that I have in music like rock'n'roll. I love creativity all the time."
Cindy Blackman
"All musicians, specially coming from the jazz background, you understand and you are a very small part of a lineage that it started away before you and it's gonna happen way after your on."
Esperanza Spalding