Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Fred Hersch

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Fred Hersch.

Last updated on November 20, 2024.

Fred Hersch is an American jazz pianist, educator and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in New York City. He has recorded more than 70 of his jazz compositions. Hersch has been nominated for several Grammy Awards, and, as of December 2014, had been on the Jazz Studies faculty of the New England Conservatory since 1980.

American - Musician | Born: October 21, 1955

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But at 42, 1 don't care what critics think.

Fred Hersch

There's a certain kind of time that's metronomic, that's correct, but doesn't want you want to dance. It doesn't make you want to move, and it doesn't make you want to play.

Fred Hersch

Jeri Brown has it all - adventurous spirit, superb musicianship, and technique to spare.

Fred Hersch

But I don't have anything to prove. My reputation is what it is. It seems that a lot of gay men are put off by jazz because either they don't believe it speaks to their own experience or they believe the genre itself to be somehow intolerant of homosexuality.

Fred Hersch

A lot of guys in New York will only play with an edge. They find their groove and that's their groove. to me, once I do that, there's no point in playing anymore because it should always be a mystery. Depending on who you are playing with, there are hundreds of ways of playing. I think that a master can play all those different kinds of time.

Fred Hersch

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Fred Hersch

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