Jazz Quotes
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What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.
Artie Shaw
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I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.
George Benson -
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
Art Blakey -
Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
Wayne Shorter -
After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
Betty Carter -
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the big jazz stars, both now and in the past...how shall I say it? These guys are as great as Bach, Beethoven; all of them. People don't know it yet. If jazz survives and is put on a pedestal as an art form, the same as classical music has been through the years, a hundred years from now the kids will know who they were, with that kind of respect.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
Eddie Condon -
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
Eddie Condon -
Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
Eddie Condon -
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
Ice T -
I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
Wayne Shorter
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I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.
Samantha Barks -
I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.
Lalo Schifrin -
Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
Eddie Condon -
To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
Wayne Shorter
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It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.
Charlie Parker -
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.
David Bowie -
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe -
Music is interior decoration.
Wayne Shorter