Create Yours

Top 30 Stan Getz Quotes (2025 Update)

Stan Getz Quote: “I learn something new every day.”

1. “I learn something new every day.”

Stan Getz Quote: “Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.”

2. “Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.”

Stan Getz Quote: “You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.”

3. “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 Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Getz Quote: “I’ve done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?”

5. “I’ve done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?”

Stan Getz Quote: “A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other’s ideas.”

6. “A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other’s ideas.”

Stan Getz Quote: “I learn something new every day – to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.”

7. “I learn something new every day – to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.”

Stan Getz Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.”

9. “There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.”

Stan Getz Quote: “The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody.”

10. “The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody.”

Stan Getz Quote: “People think that I play effortlessly. I remember doing a record date with Bill Evans and afterwards he said to me, you make it sound so easy but when I get right up next to you you’re working hard and making it sound easy!”

11. “People think that I play effortlessly. I remember doing a record date with Bill Evans and afterwards he said to me, you make it sound so easy but when I get right up next to you you’re working hard and making it sound easy!”

Stan Getz Quote: “I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won’t come out.”

12. “I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won’t come out.”

Stan Getz Quote: “If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it’s like the human voice.”

13. “If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it’s like the human voice.”

Stan Getz Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often – in fact, mostly – at the expense of everything else in my life.”

15. “My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often – in fact, mostly – at the expense of everything else in my life.”

Stan Getz Quote: “Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.”

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

Stan Getz Quote: “I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth’s a day.”

17. “I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth’s a day.”

Stan Getz Quote: “You don’t rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.”

18. “You don’t rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.”

Stan Getz Quote: “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.”

19. “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 Quote: “When I’m alcohol-free now and even to see the world around me, I appreciate it, but I never truly enjoy too much of it maybe because I feel like I’m a working musician. There are some joyous moments, but I will not think a joyous moment.”

20. “When I’m alcohol-free now and even to see the world around me, I appreciate it, but I never truly enjoy too much of it maybe because I feel like I’m a working musician. There are some joyous moments, but I will not think a joyous moment.”

Stan Getz Quote: “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.”

21. “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 Quote: “We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.”

22. “We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.”

Stan Getz Quote: “I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.”

23. “I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.”

Stan Getz Quote: “I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.”

24. “I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.”

Stan Getz Quote: “I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...”

25. “I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...”

Stan Getz Quote: “The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.”

26. “The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.”

Stan Getz Quote: “I’ve always regretted the fact that I’ve never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.”

27. “I’ve always regretted the fact that I’ve never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.”

Stan Getz Quote: “I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.”

28. “I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.”

Stan Getz Quote: “I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.”

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

Stan Getz Quote: “Hearing myself so much all the time, I don’t think I sound that special all the time because it’s me.”

30. “Hearing myself so much all the time, I don’t think I sound that special all the time because it’s me.”

Stan Getz Quote: “I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.”

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

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 30 Stan Getz Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.