Jazz Quotes
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I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
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Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
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The people know more about [Jazz] in other countries than in America. America is the last country to know about anything, because we're too fat, we have too much of everything, you understand? And we do not listen.
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I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.
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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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Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
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I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.
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You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.
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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 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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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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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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I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
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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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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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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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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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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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Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.
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Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz guys on the west coast and east coast in America, and then in Switzerland and lots of groups in England and elsewhere, like here in Brazil. We were all under a heavy influence of technological gadgets and changes that we used as elements to produce and create music.
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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.
