Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Stephane Grappelli

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French musician Stephane Grappelli.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands. He has been called "the grandfather of jazz violinists" and continued playing concerts around the world well into his eighties.

French - Musician | January 26, 1908 - December 1, 1997

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[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

Stephane Grappelli

Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.

Stephane Grappelli

Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God

Stephane Grappelli

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Stephane Grappelli

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