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"music is the only thing keeping the planet together"
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"it's time, us musicians need to get to work,
this is bullshit"
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handwritten quotes by Jaco: "in red ink"
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"allow your right hand to move up the neck for different tones"
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"if you want to get things done right, you gotta do it yourself"
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"women, children, and rhythm section first"
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"if it's muggy, I must be thirsty"
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"close enough for jazz"
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"be there or be square"
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"you dig"
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"gimme a gig"
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"turn in your cumberbun"
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"the sound is in my hands"
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"it ain't braggin' if you can back it up"
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"rhythm is the whole deal"
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"musicians are the nicest people in the world"
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"A chimpanzee could learn to do what I do physically.
But it goes way beyond that.
When you play, you play life."
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"I'm a punk from Florida"
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"The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!"
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Musician Magazine, August 1980
Musician: Where's rock and jazz influenced music headed in your view?
Pastorius: It's going to Ft. Lauderdale. That's where I'm going on Monday.
What can I tell you? I can play rock-and-roll and I can play jazz.
I don't know too many people who can do both.
And that's the future.
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"Why a manager, I don't need to pay anyone to say how great I am."
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"I am not here to raise hippy consciousness, I am here to wet some panties."
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"I like singers. I listened a lot to Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Otis Redding.
That's how I feel my music. That 'human' sound you're talking about, it comes from singers."
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"I would tell you some jokes but I don't speak Italian"
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Allyn Robinson shares a Jaco-quote:
Q. would you ever consider playing a 5 string bass?
JACO: what for?
Allyn shares a Jaco-experience:
"with the many hrs we spent on a bus Jaco would often sit in front of me
while I practiced conditioning exercises on the back of the seat in front of me,
playing from ted reeds book of syncopation. jaco would play along with my
repetitive rhythms practiciing his arpeggios & scales for hrs on end."
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Kilmo Doome shares Jaco-quotes:
"5 string bass? Low E's been good enough for the last 200 years,
what are you trying to prove?"
Kilmo:
Something to this affect when asked about thumb-slapping
"I'm not interested in that, If I wanna play drums I'll use a drum kit."
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Cork Green aaked Jaco:
Q. When you decided to really get your chops together did
you go out and buy theory books to teach yourself?
JACO: NO
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Jerry Jemmott asks:"Any advice for musicians, young and old?"
Jaco:"just to keep your minds open, keep an open head about music...
I grew up in Florida where there is no real musical prejudice,
there was all sorts of music, everyone was playing everything
from Cuban music to symphonic music...keep listening...
keep your ears open..."
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Jaco told Geoffrey Nimmo:
"Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out."
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