Jazz Quotes
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.
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This is my favorite combo of musicians. It's one of the finest jazz groups out there. I'm just proud to be in it.
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I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United States. Because I think most people think they're going to be in Green Day or whatever, and you actually have to learn about music you don't care for, too. I mean, I cared for a great deal of music; it's just that I didn't want to submerge myself into the well of fusion jazz.
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I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.
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The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.
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In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.
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I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.
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I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
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Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
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I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
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Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
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The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
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I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.
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I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
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My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
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I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical into jazz. And I did everything to really base it on my speaking voice and to just not try to make it sound pretty.
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I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We americans have made jazz funny.
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The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
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As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical extension.