“It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.” — Bill Evans
@SVG__Collection Jazz lives in the heart
@SVG__Collection Its quotes like this from great musicians that send people in the wrong direction.
@SVG__Collection True—but isn’t the beauty of jazz that it thrives in both realms—pure emotion for the listener, intricate math for the player?
@SVG__Collection So true. As a frustrated piano player I frequently turn jazz harmony into a calculus problem. Especially when it comes to Evans since his inversions and use of color tones was so different and complex. I forget, dude was looking to create a sound and not solving a math problem
@SVG__Collection Same with wing chun kung fu
@SVG__Collection @MikeyComictruth Jazz is a particle and a wave.
@SVG__Collection Insecurity. They don’t feel the music.
@SVG__Collection I love it! Bill Evans grew up in the next town over from me in New Jersey.
@SVG__Collection I find I tap my foot differently depending who gets the solo. Upright Bass, I use 2 feet.
@SVG__Collection When people start to play, it’s a balance between instinctive things they do and then the academics can come in gradually
@SVG__Collection People say that about painting and writing, too.
@SVG__Collection How I be standing in front of my fridge at 2am knowing there ain’t shit in there… #ItsAFeeling
@SVG__Collection Great quote - jazz shouldn't be some unapproachable edifice.
@SVG__Collection I agree with this whole heartedly. Honestly tha’s why I never even learned how to fuckin’ play.
@SVG__Collection My Dad taught me that when I was very young. I spread that word as much as I can. ❤️
