John Abercrombie quotes
“As Eric Dolphy said "Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone". And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.” — John Abercrombie
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“Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.” — John Abercrombie
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“Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.” — John Abercrombie
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“I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.” — John Abercrombie
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“If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.” — John Abercrombie
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“On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.” — John Abercrombie
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“So in a way, I was subbing for George, which was really far out. George was an established player and a really hot player and I wasn't. But it was fun. I still have a copy of the record. But it's long out of print. I actually made a tape copy of it, because I figure the record won't last that much longer.” — John Abercrombie
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“That's really the way you play live anyway. If you're playing on a gig, you're not going to get a second chance to overdub your solo on the next set. But when I have my druthers, I like to do multi-track, mostly just to be able to fix something that's really horrible.” — John Abercrombie
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“The records with Andy are done in one day. They were done for a record label called Steeplechase. The guy who runs the label . . . books two record sessions a day. So he has a record date with one group from, say 10:00 until 3:00, then another band comes in from 5:00 until midnight.” — John Abercrombie
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“You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.” — John Abercrombie
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