Jazz Quotes
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Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's greatest gifts to the world. America and Africa collaborated to give the world jazz. We'll call it even.
Teju Cole -
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
Herbie Hancock
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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
Herbie Hancock -
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 -
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
Rita Coolidge -
I've always loved jazz.
Rita Coolidge -
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
Norman Granz -
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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It's very modern. Very gamine. You look like a jazz singer.
Elizabeth Wein -
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
Norman Granz -
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.
Herbie Hancock -
I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
Herbie Hancock -
The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.
Elvin Jones -
I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.
Nat Hentoff
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I love my jazz hands!
David Dickinson -
It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.
David Bowie -
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
Herbie Hancock -
Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
Herbie Hancock -
I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.
Terry Teachout -
It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
Herbie Hancock
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
Herbie Hancock -
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
Molly Ringwald -
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.
Ernest Sosa -
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock