Stan Getz Quotes

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

Reading taught me how to write.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It's not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing.

I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books.

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

I'm just a student. I'm learning all the time, and, like anyone, I'm just looking for words I can use and a hummable melody.

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

One of the mistakes they often make is the designers over-accessorize or over-elaborate. So you realize: this would work if they removed X and Y. And actually, that's the sort of thing that translates into writing, because a lot of the time you realize, I feel I need to add something here but actually what I need to do is subtract. And then there's always the psychodrama and the tears and the rage and the feuds.

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.