markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

For jazz enthusiasts and those who desire to learn.
Yogi Berra Explains Jazz:

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, 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.
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 players 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.

Now you understand, JAZZ?
Mark

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rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

That is hilarious.
--Bob

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I thought so too, Bob!!
Thanks!
Mark

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

Mark, I LOVE this...............have sent it to my muso pals.!!!

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Thanks. I laugh everytime I read it.
Mark

mr spock Loc: Fairfield CT

LOL!!!
Thanks Mark

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Thanks Mark.
I always love this guys quotes and sayings.
Bruce

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Thanks,
Mark

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Me too!!
Mark

FrankR Loc: NYC

Gotta love it, thanks for the laugh to start the day Mark. Good thing nobody ever asked him about the circle of fifths.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

ltatko

And--- when you get to the fork in the road take it!!

A Yogi GEM!!

Len T.

ottopj Loc: Annapolis, MD USA

Now I know what I needed to know when I didn't know. Now, I know!

Denny357mag Loc: Sparta,Mi

Thanks a lot.

woodworkerman Loc: PA to FL

STILL, one of the greatest players to ever play with a ball and stick. Loved him.