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Bill Evans Quotes
«Actually, I'm not interested in Zen that much, as a philosophy, nor in joining any movements. I don't pretend to understand it. I just find it comforting. And very similar to jazz. Like jazz, you can't explain it to anyone without losing the experience. It's got to be experienced, because it's feeling, not words.»
Author: Bill Evans
(Pianist)
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«Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.»
«Sometimes it can happen that you see everything in terms of music. It's like a fixation. You can't help it. I get that way every time I'm trying to work something out. But it's bad if you can't pull out of it. Nothing should be that dominating. If it is, it is perverted.»
«I want to play as good as I can, not necessarily as different. I am not interested in consciously changing the essence of my music. I would rather have it reveal itself progressively as I play. Ultimately, what counts is its essential quality, anyway, and differences vanish in a short time.»
«At this point, we're in limbo.»
Author: Bill Evans
(Pianist)
«Economists are interested in why 70 percent makes it. It's surprising to us that so much makes it.»
Author: Bill Evans
(Pianist)
«The biggest story for us is our continued growth at 5 o'clock.»
Author: Bill Evans
(Pianist)
«We have done extremely well in the past decade with our capital and will take a somewhat more cautious approach targeting a minimum annual return of 15 percent.»
Author: Bill Evans
(Pianist)