Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Orrin Keepnews" in German language version.
“An interesting verbal commitment: a non-existent band would be promptly recorded someplace on the road by a still very shoestring company that had never sent its staff producer, me, to work any further than a subway ride away from home. But it turned out to be one of the neatest examples of good results of bread-cast-upon the-waters since the Bible.”
„I didn’t go there for the music, but the music was there, and the music got me.“
“Almost everybody I recorded was someone who I had personal enthusiasm for.”
“What I proved to myself is that, even under the best circumstances, I’m not happy working for somebody else.”
“'I’ve done the very thing I always insisted I would never do again, I’ve started another record label.”
“If you were big enough to walk into a bar and put down 75 cents or dollar for a drink, nobody asked if you were old enough.”
“I enrolled in graduate school for the express purpose of making myself feel literate again, I wasn’t looking for a master’s degree. I figured I’d go to Columbia for however long it took me to feel, 'Hey, I’m now capable of going back into the world I wanted to be in.' and then I’d look for a job, which was pretty much what happened.”
“Monk was not about to show any mercy. He had his standards. I probably learned as much about living from him as I did about music.”
“We were fans who became record companies. If you had your own company and said you were a producer, who was going to say you weren’t?”
“Our goal wasn’t to sell a lot of records and get rich. Our goal was to sell enough records to make the next one.”
“I’ve always thought of myself as more of a catalyst than anything else, I never played an instrument, and I finally figured out that is one of my strengths as a producer. I’ve never felt that I was competing with the musicians or that I could play that solo better. My job became to provide the best possible environment in which the musicians could express themselves. It’s not easy, and it’s never dull.”
“If you were big enough to walk into a bar and put down 75 cents or dollar for a drink, nobody asked if you were old enough.”
“I enrolled in graduate school for the express purpose of making myself feel literate again, I wasn’t looking for a master’s degree. I figured I’d go to Columbia for however long it took me to feel, 'Hey, I’m now capable of going back into the world I wanted to be in.' and then I’d look for a job, which was pretty much what happened.”
“Monk was not about to show any mercy. He had his standards. I probably learned as much about living from him as I did about music.”
“We were fans who became record companies. If you had your own company and said you were a producer, who was going to say you weren’t?”
“Our goal wasn’t to sell a lot of records and get rich. Our goal was to sell enough records to make the next one.”
“I’ve always thought of myself as more of a catalyst than anything else, I never played an instrument, and I finally figured out that is one of my strengths as a producer. I’ve never felt that I was competing with the musicians or that I could play that solo better. My job became to provide the best possible environment in which the musicians could express themselves. It’s not easy, and it’s never dull.”
