Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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Related Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but ja... BILLY HIGGINS But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona... JACK SIMPSON We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would ha... GEORGE BENSON Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te... DAVID SANBORN I miss u, how can i tell that? I will never find someone like you,i will never love someone as much ... JAZZ Time is precious
If memories are gorgeous
I was religious
But i got meanless
Do god love me?
But he ... JAZZ And my answer is very simple. One day somebody stuck a big tattoo on my arm, or on the festival, and... CLAUDE NOBS Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listenin... TONY WILSON The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time. BILLY HIGGINS Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. MARC RIBOT I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection ... KURT ELLING I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the ja... LAURA MVULA Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and ... DAVE VAN RONK Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone? PETER CAPALDI There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming. NEIL PEART My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz. DAMIEN CHAZELLE The French-they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time. BILLY HIGGINS Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not ... ROY AYERS Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more inte... PETE TOWNSHEND I grew up around jazz. I love jazz. BAZ LUHRMANN People say we're a jazz group. But there's no way I would ever call myself a jazz drummer. The only ... ALAN EVANS Thompson was involved in the world of jazz. Jazz musicians were interested in his work, and he in th... CURTIS CARTER Jazz music is constantly evolving and women have long been instrumental in shaping the landscape of ... DEREK E. GORDON It is also jazz mass. It is in jazz idiom. There are definitely some Latin-based pieces. JOE NEGRI Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th... MADELEINE PEYROUX Jazz is rhythm and meaning. HENRI MATISSE Jazz is progressive, and it's alive. KAT EDMONSON Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o... ARTURO O'FARRILL My music is jazz. YUSEF LATEEF I think jazz guitar isn't very ladylike in general. Not that it shouldn't be. MARY HALVORSON There are a lot of young musicians out there performing what they think is Latin jazz but instead is... EDDIE PALMIERI I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing... ETHAN IVERSON In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jaz... CLINT EASTWOOD What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural preju... MAXIM GORKY The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest... AHMET ERTEGUN I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. RITA COOLIDGE Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz i... BILLY HIGGINS What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's ... BRANFORD MARSALIS I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i... NAT WOLFF The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for th... RITA COOLIDGE Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja... AL JARREAU Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. PAUL DESMOND Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music... SAM SMITH I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. FLEA Jazz is democracy in music. WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been ... NAT WOLFF I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, ... ROBERT GLASPER Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to... MARLA GIBBS My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ... WYNTON MARSALIS You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn... CHARLIE WATTS What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. Th... MAXIM GORKY I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played... ALEXIS KORNER It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhy... ISADORA DUNCAN Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme. RICHARD HOLBROOKE I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play... ROY AYERS Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classi... WYNTON MARSALIS Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the i... TROMBONE SHORTY Jazz is the music of the body ANAIS NIN Anyone who's a jazz purist doesn't really want to hear 'jazz' attached to our music, and that's some... JASON FREY Jazz is about being in the moment. HERBIE HANCOCK To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b... NINA SIMONE I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. JOHNNY RAMONE One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer. KURT ELLING I'm not a jazz singer. BOZ SCAGGS They said, 'Why don't you make a hit record?' I said, 'It's not a big deal.' Because jazz musicians,... QUINCY JONES I didn't know much about Mabel because I was glued to the jazz musicians, FRANK SINATRA We were jazz musicians in the early days. But as soon as we brought in the DJ, the shows turned from... FELIX RIEBL The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a d... PAT METHENY Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend. ANDRA DAY Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. GEORGE GERSHWIN One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it. MAHALIA JACKSON If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. LOUIS ARMSTRONG [Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's... LIONEL HAMPTON I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of my... CASSANDRA WILSON Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people... RITA COOLIDGE I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all th... BOB IGER Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Jazz is the art of thinking out loud. BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars. DONALD FAGEN Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prev... DAVE BRUBECK One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I knew of jazz, but I didn't like it. I always thought only older people liked jazz - you know, you ... HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. FRANCOISE SAGAN Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny FRANK ZAPPA I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me. TED RALL Life is a lot like jazz.. it's best when you improvise. GEORGE GERSHWIN I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either ... AL JARREAU I was nearing the end of childhood when I started to pay real attention to jazz singers. Women excel... MARGO JEFFERSON I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz sho... JESSYE NORMAN If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. LOUIS ARMSTRONG What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz. SAMUEL L. JACKSON All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communio... JOHN COLTRANE I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your fee... COUNT BASIE The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. MILES DAVIS The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. BOBBY MCFERRIN Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme MAXIM GORKY By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associa... DUKE ELLINGTON Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
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