Jazz Quotes
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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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Streets paved with opal sadness,
Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy,
And jazz.
Bob Kaufman
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The music is what sustains the player from beginning to end. That’s where you get your life from. That’s why you play jazz.
Art Farmer
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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.
Ernest Gaines
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I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.
Christian McBride
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Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era from the '20's or bebop from the Swing Era or Avant-garde from Bebop, or Effusion, or on and on and on. So, we don't really know where it's going.
Gary Giddins
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Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.
Stefon Harris
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Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.
Robert Wyatt
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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me."
Quincy Jones
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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 feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
Herbie Hancock
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The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.
David First
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I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.
Hamid Drake
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
Travis Barker
Blink-182
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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
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I've always loved jazz.
Rita Coolidge
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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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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.
Ashley Kahn
