The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Django Reinhardt
- With Django Unchained, when you’re dealing with slavery, it’s like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie; he’s just going to lay there and be safe. There’s going to be twists and flips.
- Now Tarantino is making DJANGO UNCHAINED. Everybody is telling me I am in the movie, but I’ve not been asked by Tarantino officially. Not yet. There were many, many other Django films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one Django.
- Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn’t play like any of them, though.
- I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of getting immersed in his world. Towards the end of the Inglourious Basterds press tour, I was in Japan. Spaghetti Westerns are really popular there, so I picked up a bunch of soundtracks and spent my day off listening to all these scores. And all of a sudden, the opening scene just came to me.
- I saw Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained,’ and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don’t like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino’s violence is actually funny.
- I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally—the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.
- Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother, and about an hour later, in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group and carried his own admirers with him—the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you’ve ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do. He was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of; I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.
- I didn’t have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.
- I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz played the piano in ‘Django [Unchained]’. Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano player, but there’s never a moment where Django played the piano.
- The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience to cheer in triumph at the end.
Django Reinhardt (1910–1953) was a pioneering Belgian-born jazz guitarist and composer, renowned for his innovative contributions to the genre of gypsy jazz. Born into a Romani community, Reinhardt began playing the banjo and later switched to the guitar. His music career took a dramatic turn when a fire in his caravan severely burned his left hand, leaving him with limited use of his fourth and fifth fingers. Undeterred, Reinhardt developed a unique playing style, using only two fingers to create intricate and fast-paced guitar solos.
In the 1930s, Django co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, a groundbreaking ensemble that featured his collaboration with violinist Stéphane Grappelli. Together, they created a body of work that showcased Reinhardt’s virtuosity and his ability to fuse traditional Romani music with American jazz influences. His compositions like “Minor Swing” and “Daphne” remain iconic in the gypsy jazz repertoire.
Reinhardt’s influence extended beyond his lifetime, with countless musicians continuing to draw inspiration from his innovative guitar techniques and improvisational prowess. Despite facing adversity, Django Reinhardt’s legacy endures as a symbol of resilience and creativity in the world of jazz.
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