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02-15-2005, 10:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The black hole of Cygnus X-1 | | | Yogi Berra Describes Jazz
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This is too funny...(and true?).
Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?
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, it's 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."
Interviewer: "I don't understand."
Yogi: "Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it."
Interviewer: "Do you understand it?"
Yogi: "No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it."
Interviewer: "Are there any great jazz player alive today?"
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. Some would kill for it."
Interviewer: "What is syncopation?"
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."
Interviewer: "Now I really don't understand."
Yogi: "I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well." |
02-15-2005, 10:21 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Decatur, GA | | | That might be a little amusing, but it is in no way, shape, or form true. Not even by a long stretch of the imagination. |
02-15-2005, 10:56 AM
|  | Jazz Chicken | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ennui, IN USA | | | Sounds like a little verbal jazz, there.
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02-15-2005, 12:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The black hole of Cygnus X-1 | | Yeah its just for amusement purposes. In no way did I intend to actually define jazz by Yogi's standards (  )
I just get a kick out of how Yogi explains things. |
02-15-2005, 12:22 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | he's not all that off!  |
02-15-2005, 12:42 PM
|  | Now With More Metal! Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Harte fjord, CT | | '... and they give you cash, which is just as good as money'
Yogi Berra on one of those AFLAC commercials. Even the duck was shaking its head after that one.
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02-15-2005, 02:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: ottawa, ontario, canada | | | well put |
02-15-2005, 03:52 PM
|  | Player Characters fear me... Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Middletown CT, USA | | did you write that????? that's brilliant. that is sooooooo yogi. and not all that off about the jazz either. |
02-15-2005, 04:27 PM
| | Howzit brah | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Kauai, HI | | | Sounds like he's been hanging out in Zambiland with Col. Bruce.
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02-15-2005, 05:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | no, Bruce does things like read the ingredients of a can of soup on stage (as lyrics)  |
02-15-2005, 10:15 PM
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