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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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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I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.
Cannonball Adderley -
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 -
I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
Wes Montgomery -
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
Ahmet Ertegun -
Jazz is America's classical music.
Billy Taylor -
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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I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night -
I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
Robert Wyatt -
Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.
Tommy Chong -
Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
Merle Haggard -
Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.
Billy Taylor
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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.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
Rickie Lee Jones -
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Norman Granz -
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz -
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
Gerry Mulligan -
Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.
Stefon Harris
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The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.
Eldar Djangirov -
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
Ahmad Alaadeen -
I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but a rhythmic revolution.
Stefon Harris -
I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
Norman Granz