53 Quotes by Stan Getz

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.