Jazz Quotes
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My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.
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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.
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I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly brought rock up to a level of jazz-like sophistication and virtuosity, introducing it as a medium worthy of the soloist's art. Oral histories can be tricky things: either penetrating, delivering information and backstories that get to the heart of how timeless music was made. Or too often, they lie flat on the page, a random retelling of repeated facts and reheated yarns. I'm happy to say that Paul's is in that first category.
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My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.
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I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
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The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.
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"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It's not so much a genre, but a way of expression.
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I've always loved jazz.
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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
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I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
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I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.
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Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
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In my view a jazz musician is a great musician
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Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.
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When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
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You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
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I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.
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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.
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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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I love my jazz hands!
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The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.
