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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![]()
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te...
DAVID SANBORN![]()
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the b...
ERIC BURDON The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.”
“Are you kidding? That’s the mus...
PETER WATTS![]()
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 Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX![]()
Jazz is the music of the body
ANAIS NIN Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or ano...
BRIA SKONBERG I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at.
THE HELP I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours-mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry,...
THE HELP My music is jazz.
YUSEF LATEEF In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme...
MIKE FIGGIS Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz is the folk music of the machine age
PAUL WHITEMAN Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
PAUL WHITEMAN![]()
Jazz is democracy in music.
WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
MARC RIBOT![]()
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
DAVID SANBORN And my answer is very simple. One day somebody stuck a big tattoo on my arm, or on the festival, and...
CLAUDE NOBS Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, ...
DEXTER GORDON Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK![]()
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really...
PAT METHENY![]()
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great ...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it m...
ROBERT GLASPER Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja...
AL JARREAU![]()
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
FRANCOISE SAGAN I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even en...
DONOVAN BAILEY![]()
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new in...
NINA SIMONE [Does Piazza feel jazz is an acquired taste?] If by 'acquired taste' you mean that jazz resists imme...
TOM PIAZZA I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
ANITA DIAMENT That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music.
DOMINIC SUCHYTA The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
NORMAN GRANZ![]()
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or...
TONY BENNETT![]()
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE![]()
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ...
WYNTON MARSALIS![]()
I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.
ZIGGY MARLEY I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you ...
JOE HILL I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Jazz music is constantly evolving and women have long been instrumental in shaping the landscape of ...
DEREK E. GORDON Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
JELLY ROLL MORTON![]()
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i...
PAT METHENY From Harlem to Queens, New York City has always been at the center of the jazz music evolution. This...
CRISTYNE NICHOLAS Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o...
ARTURO O'FARRILL Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz w...
LARRY CORYELL In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron...
HERBIE HANCOCK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES![]()
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each t...
ORNETTE COLEMAN So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instr...
MIROSLAV VITOUS![]()
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
LOU REED The big tall buildings, the jazz, the traffic, all of it is communicated through the music. It's inc...
BOB SCHAER As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
EDGAR WINTER We have different genres that are complementary to jazz and close to the idiom. This is the 37th out...
FRANK MALFITANO Anyone who's a jazz purist doesn't really want to hear 'jazz' attached to our music, and that's some...
JASON FREY Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.
MAYNARD FERGUSON I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicia...
SONNY ROLLINS Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu...
ALOE BLACC Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
JAN GARBAREK Jazz is a music that translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians bu...
HERBIE HANCOCK![]()
To put on your suit and play jazz music, ... knowing that many people in your audience have never ex...
WYNTON MARSALIS Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers.
GLENN MARTIN The city of New Orleans with its famous coffee and beignets, Jazz Music and beautiful architecture w...
BILL BURKE![]()
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer...
TRAVIS SCOTT In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
MAYNARD FERGUSON We even show how jazz, rock and country are all intertwined and related to each other. The students ...
ANGELA CRING![]()
We like this kind of music. Jazz is strictly for stay-at-homes.
BUDDY HOLLY When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan...
MIGUEL ZENON![]()
I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ...
RACHEL COHN Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti...
GEORGE MARTIN Jazz has still not gotten to the point where it is totally, the most, the greatest thing is happenin...
BILLY HIGGINS![]()
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is...
VERA NAZARIAN He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money.
DAVID IRA GOLDSTEIN He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money,
IRA GOLDSTEIN![]()
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century m...
KEN BURNS![]()
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the...
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz sho...
JESSYE NORMAN![]()
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that m...
ROBERT WYATT I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
TAJ MAHAL Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows...
DONALD HARRISON Boxing is such a great sport and so much like making jazz music, ... There is the footwork, the jab,...
JOE ZAWINUL![]()
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. Th...
MAXIM GORKY Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than ju...
RAY BROWN Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul
PAUL WHITEMAN Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire...
DJANGO REINHARDT![]()
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
FRANK ZAPPA Anybody who plays jazz can't escape the shadow of John Coltrane. We've been playing various arrangem...
DAVID BALAKRISHNAN The most important element to jazz music is being able to improvise. You learn the language of the m...
ERIC ESSEX![]()
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz...
NAT WOLFF Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of wha...
MIGUEL ZENON I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
FRED DURST![]()
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b...
NINA SIMONE At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t...
HERBIE HANCOCK![]()
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music...
SAM SMITH![]()
The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth...
MATISYAHU![]()
The jam band idiom is kind of the new jazz as these kids will be growing up with this music as this ...
BOB WEIR Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
ALAN VEGA Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, ...
ROBERT GLASPER![]()
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in...
DONALD MILLER When he has disappeared, Mother clears her throat. I don't turn around and look at her in the rockin...
KATHYRN STOCKETT
BILLY HIGGINS But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona...
JACK SIMPSON
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te... DAVID SANBORN
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the b... ERIC BURDON The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.”
“Are you kidding? That’s the mus...
PETER WATTS
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 Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX
Jazz is the music of the body ANAIS NIN Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or ano...
BRIA SKONBERG I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at.
THE HELP I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours-mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry,...
THE HELP My music is jazz.
YUSEF LATEEF In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme...
MIKE FIGGIS Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz is the folk music of the machine age
PAUL WHITEMAN Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
PAUL WHITEMAN
Jazz is democracy in music. WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
MARC RIBOT
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. DAVID SANBORN And my answer is very simple. One day somebody stuck a big tattoo on my arm, or on the festival, and...
CLAUDE NOBS Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, ...
DEXTER GORDON Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really... PAT METHENY
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great ... CHARLES HAZLEWOOD I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it m...
ROBERT GLASPER Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja...
AL JARREAU
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. FRANCOISE SAGAN I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even en...
DONOVAN BAILEY
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new in... NINA SIMONE [Does Piazza feel jazz is an acquired taste?] If by 'acquired taste' you mean that jazz resists imme...
TOM PIAZZA I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
ANITA DIAMENT That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music.
DOMINIC SUCHYTA The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
NORMAN GRANZ
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... TONY BENNETT
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. NINA SIMONE
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ... WYNTON MARSALIS
I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it. ZIGGY MARLEY I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you ...
JOE HILL I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Jazz music is constantly evolving and women have long been instrumental in shaping the landscape of ...
DEREK E. GORDON Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
JELLY ROLL MORTON
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i... PAT METHENY From Harlem to Queens, New York City has always been at the center of the jazz music evolution. This...
CRISTYNE NICHOLAS Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o...
ARTURO O'FARRILL Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz w...
LARRY CORYELL In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron...
HERBIE HANCOCK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each t... ORNETTE COLEMAN So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instr...
MIROSLAV VITOUS
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. LOU REED The big tall buildings, the jazz, the traffic, all of it is communicated through the music. It's inc...
BOB SCHAER As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
EDGAR WINTER We have different genres that are complementary to jazz and close to the idiom. This is the 37th out...
FRANK MALFITANO Anyone who's a jazz purist doesn't really want to hear 'jazz' attached to our music, and that's some...
JASON FREY Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.
MAYNARD FERGUSON I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicia...
SONNY ROLLINS Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu...
ALOE BLACC Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
JAN GARBAREK Jazz is a music that translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians bu...
HERBIE HANCOCK
To put on your suit and play jazz music, ... knowing that many people in your audience have never ex... WYNTON MARSALIS Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers.
GLENN MARTIN The city of New Orleans with its famous coffee and beignets, Jazz Music and beautiful architecture w...
BILL BURKE
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer... TRAVIS SCOTT In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
MAYNARD FERGUSON We even show how jazz, rock and country are all intertwined and related to each other. The students ...
ANGELA CRING
We like this kind of music. Jazz is strictly for stay-at-homes. BUDDY HOLLY When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan...
MIGUEL ZENON
I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ... RACHEL COHN Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti...
GEORGE MARTIN Jazz has still not gotten to the point where it is totally, the most, the greatest thing is happenin...
BILLY HIGGINS
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is... VERA NAZARIAN He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money.
DAVID IRA GOLDSTEIN He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money,
IRA GOLDSTEIN
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century m... KEN BURNS
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the... JOHN MCLAUGHLIN I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz sho...
JESSYE NORMAN
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that m... ROBERT WYATT I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
TAJ MAHAL Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows...
DONALD HARRISON Boxing is such a great sport and so much like making jazz music, ... There is the footwork, the jab,...
JOE ZAWINUL
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. Th... MAXIM GORKY Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than ju...
RAY BROWN Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul
PAUL WHITEMAN Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire...
DJANGO REINHARDT
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny. FRANK ZAPPA Anybody who plays jazz can't escape the shadow of John Coltrane. We've been playing various arrangem...
DAVID BALAKRISHNAN The most important element to jazz music is being able to improvise. You learn the language of the m...
ERIC ESSEX
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz... NAT WOLFF Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of wha...
MIGUEL ZENON I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
FRED DURST
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b... NINA SIMONE At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t...
HERBIE HANCOCK
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music... SAM SMITH
The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth... MATISYAHU
The jam band idiom is kind of the new jazz as these kids will be growing up with this music as this ... BOB WEIR Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
ALAN VEGA Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, ...
ROBERT GLASPER
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in... DONALD MILLER When he has disappeared, Mother clears her throat. I don't turn around and look at her in the rockin...
KATHYRN STOCKETT
You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was becau... 
Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but... 
It's hard to stop loving someone on cue, especially when he's still so kind and loving towar... 