Jazz Quotes
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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
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I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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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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I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player.
Ray Manzarek
The Doors
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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
Ice T
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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
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
Wayne Shorter
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[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.
David Bowie
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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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If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
Ben Harper
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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
