Jazz Quotes
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
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A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
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Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.
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Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.
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The music becomes something that is its own entity.
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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
