Karen Mason Quotes

I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill.

Karen Mason

• Jazz
• Pops
• Halls
• Carnegie
• Landmarks

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• A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Bad
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style
  • Speak
  • Jazz

• I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • You
  • Jazz
  • Blues

• It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Style
  • Military
  • Army

• I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Think
  • Jazz
  • View

• My music is jazz.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Music
  • Jazz

• I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Once

• I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • America
  • Jazz

• My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • First

• Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Jazz

• As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Jazz
  • Older
  • My Love

• That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.

  

  Andra Day
  • Song
  • Control
  • Jazz

• I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

  

  Carole King
  • Time
  • Work
  • London

• Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Different
  • Girl

• I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Artist
  • Term
  • My Own

• I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Game

• God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.

  

  John Calvin
  • God Is
  • Rewards
  • Pleases

• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Everyday

• It was in that semifloating state--that transition between the blissful suspension of awareness and the depths of total unconsciousness--that I first encountered the transparent weave of creature voices not only as a choir but as a cohesive sonic event. No longer a cacophony, it became a partitioned collection of vocal organisms--a highly orchestrated acoustic arrangement of insects, spotted hyenas, eagle-owls, African wood-owls, elephants, tree hyrax, distant lions, and several knots of tree frogs and toads. Every distinct voice seemed to fit within its own acoustic bandwidth.

  

  Bernie Krause
  • Creature
  • Voices
  • Transition

• I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill.

  

  Karen Mason
  • Jazz
  • Pops
  • Halls