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I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Stan Getz

Musicians

Play

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Stan Getz

Body

Challenge

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

Stan Getz

Now

Want

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

Stan Getz

Sound

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Stan Getz

Life

Choice

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

Stan Getz

Play

Voice

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

Stan Getz

Sound

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

Stan Getz

Mouse