Jazz Quotes
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It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.
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Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
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Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
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I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
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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.
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You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.
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The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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.
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I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
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You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.
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I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.
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I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.
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Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.
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Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
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Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.
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The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned that spark. And the nice thing with my band and this repertoire, which is a complete joy, is that we go beyond just playing chords and melody. It is music that can stretch out.
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R&B music became gigantic with people like Marvin Gaye and Barry White and Curtis Mayfield who became superstars. We tried to find a place where Jazz belonged because we didn't sell records.
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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.
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We were jazz musicians in the early days. But as soon as we brought in the DJ, the shows turned from people sitting down to dancing.
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Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
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Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.
