Jazz Quotes
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I'm a great jazz fan.
Vidal Sassoon
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My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
Haley Reinhart
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
Natalie Cole
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
Pat Metheny
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
Gary Cherone
Van Halen
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
Gary Lucas
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
La India
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
Van Morrison
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
Yael Naim
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
Pat Metheny
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
Eddi Reader
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
Damien Chazelle
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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.
Damien Chazelle
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
Anton Zaslavski
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
Eddie Marsan
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
Rachel Stevens
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
Damien Chazelle
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
Pat Metheny
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
Aaron Neville
