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."

Good one. I understood everything that was said right up until Yogi spoke.
Eddie

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Wasn't he a baseball player?
Maybe that explains all...

(although he was right about jazz, albeit in a wrong way...)

Yo Boo Boo
I think he's got a few sandwiches missing from that pik-i-nik basket!!

Yogi was if fact a baseball player, much as Shakespeare was a writer!
DonM

"Nobody goes there anymore...It gets too crowded"
Yogi

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because
I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
--Yogi Berra

On golf - 80% of the balls that don't reach the cup don't go in ...
- Yogi

t.

"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours."

Yogi

Here is the collection:

He really didn't say everything he said.
http://home.att.net/~quotesexchange/yogiberra.html

Jerry