Jazz Quotes
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One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
Bix Beiderbecke
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I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.
Scotty Moore
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The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.
Eldar Djangirov
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It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.
Ashley Kahn
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Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
Herbie Hancock
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I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
Nigel Kennedy
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Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible tennis player - loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.
Robert Trujillo
Metallica
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Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
Merle Haggard
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You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different. Why is that? Because it's more in tune with jazz arrangements. It's very different. It's not a traditional rock and roll production, in terms of the drums.
Robert Trujillo
Metallica
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I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
Wes Montgomery
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I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
Norman Granz
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I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.
Floor Jansen
Nightwish
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Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well.
Christian McBride
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Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.
Casey Abrams