bassace Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I've just lifted this from the other forum. I do hope I don't get into trouble but I found it quite amusing. [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi Berra on Jazz[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]An interview with the Master of Malapropisms[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: Can you explain Jazz?[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all Jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: I don't understand.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: Do you understand it?[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: Are there any great Jazz player alive today?[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: No. All the great Jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: What is syncopation?[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In Jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be Jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand Jazz that well.[/font][/color] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 yogi sounds like an expert practitioner... ....of getting his head stuck up his own ar5e Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBus Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 [quote name='bassace' timestamp='1368521899' post='2077884'] [color=#000000][size=4]Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all Jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.[/size][/color] [/quote] I think that just about sums jazz up in a nutshell. [size=4] [/size] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 There's a fine line between impenetrably deep, artistically significant guru-speak, and simply talking bollocks. And I think yogi's well over that line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 (edited) Theydon Bois on guitar but is Clam on basschat?? [media]http://youtu.be/MsQYzpOHpik[/media] Edited May 14, 2013 by steve-bbb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlloyd Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 [quote name='Muzz' timestamp='1368522988' post='2077897'] There's a fine line between impenetrably deep, artistically significant guru-speak, and simply talking bollocks. And I think yogi's well over that line. [/quote] As he intended to be. It's satire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassace Posted May 14, 2013 Author Share Posted May 14, 2013 [quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1368526624' post='2077941'] As he intended to be. It's satire. [/quote] Of course it is! Doh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 D'you know, there was something niggling me about that name, and now it's clicked. And now I've read the whole thing. I think what fooled me was that it isn't funny... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlloyd Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 [quote name='Muzz' timestamp='1368526846' post='2077946'] D'you know, there was something niggling me about that name, and now it's clicked. And now I've read the whole thing. I think what fooled me was that it isn't funny... [/quote] I don't know if it is genuine Berra, but I think the problem here is that we're not automatically as exposed to jazz (or rather jazz journalism) as its intended audience. I find it funny, but that's probably because I read the stuff that he's satirising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risingson Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I thought it was funny, it's got to be pretty difficult in fact to answer interview questions like that so confusingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenitram Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Other Yogi Berra quotes: http://www.rinkworks.com/said/yogiberra.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 [quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1368527815' post='2077960'] Other Yogi Berra quotes: [url="http://www.rinkworks.com/said/yogiberra.shtml"]http://www.rinkworks...yogiberra.shtml[/url] [/quote] did he borrow these from george dubya ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 [quote name='bassace' timestamp='1368521899' post='2077884'] I've just lifted this from the other forum. I do hope I don't get into trouble but I found it quite amusing. [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi Berra on Jazz[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]An interview with the Master of Malapropisms[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: Can you explain Jazz?[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all Jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: I don't understand.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: Do you understand it?[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: Are there any great Jazz player alive today?[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: No. All the great Jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: What is syncopation?[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In Jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be Jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand Jazz that well.[/font][/color] [/quote] Awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumbob Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 [quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1368527815' post='2077960'] Other Yogi Berra quotes: [url="http://www.rinkworks.com/said/yogiberra.shtml"]http://www.rinkworks...yogiberra.shtml[/url] [/quote] "Do you mean now?" -- [i]When asked for the time. [/i] [i] [/i][i] [/i] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bassman7755 Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=14326#.UZImTsq2AzQ "Double bass players have feelings of insecurity, and carry their instruments to gigs as self-abasement. They feel bad because they always play far fewer notes than anyone else but receive the same money. They are given occasional solos to play because the rest of the band want a lift in the van going home afterwards. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 [quote name='bassace' timestamp='1368521899' post='2077884'] [color=#000000]Interviewer: What is syncopation?[/color] [color=#000000]Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In Jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be Jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds.[/color] [/quote] never liked syncopated notes, especially on hi hats, I just don't think they sound right, can't stand improvised jazz, so I guess that explains it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 [quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1368534069' post='2078062'] [b]never liked syncopated notes, especially on hi hats, I just don't think they sound right,[/b] can't stand improvised jazz, so I guess that explains it [/quote] Really?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Of course people have opinions, but..... A world of music without syncopated notes ? [IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img521/1817/earthsquareworldglobe.jpg[/IMG] Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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