[Dixielandjazz] Yogi Berra on Jazz

[Marek Boym]

Lovely, Dave!
Forwarding it to my jazz friends!
Cheers

On 20 March 2015 at 00:09, domitype . <domitype at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know if this is an actual quote or made up, but I like it!
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> Dave Richoux
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> Yogi Berra's Explanation of Jazz
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> Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?
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> Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation.
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> 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.
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> Interviewer: I don't understand.
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> Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's
> too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
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> Interviewer: Do you understand it?
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> Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know
> anything about it.
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> Interviewer: Are there any great jazz player alive today?
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> 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.
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> Interviewer: What is syncopation?
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> 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.
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> Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.
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> Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well.
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