Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth12 June 1941
CityChelsea, MA
CountryUnited States of America
night men play
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
wife singers musician
My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.
likes adventurous audience
I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.
queens creativity school
You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.
guitar band saxophone
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
spiritual awareness spiritual-beings
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
american-musician musical sounds
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
teacher
I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.
rendition
Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it deconstructively. That's the most fun, but I can only do that when I'm on my own.
above art create high picasso
You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.
american-musician art subject
Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
american-musician band music playing wonderful
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
interested music successful thoroughly various ways
I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.
business compete music people records
People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.