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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.


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BUDDY DEFRANCO I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
DAVE VAN RONK I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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JOSE JAMES It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care wher...
BILLY HIGGINS I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism a...
HERBIE HANCOCK I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician....
CHARLES DE LINT I was nearing the end of childhood when I started to pay real attention to jazz singers. Women excel...
MARGO JEFFERSON We're getting there. We're a very highly regarded jazz festival, still very much dedicated to mainst...
CAROL STONE Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te...
DAVID SANBORN I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
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JIM COLEMAN Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, ...
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CLAUDE NOBS I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ...
JOHN LEGEND We play what I call 'soul jazz,' ... The core of the repertoire is a funky, bluesy style of be-bop t...
DAVE NELSON Her love of the arts was all-inclusive and her patronage went right across the board including jazz,...
CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of wha...
MIGUEL ZENON Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
ALEXIS KORNER It's our tribute to the Gulf Coast. It will have a wide variety of music including classical, bluegr...
GEORGE RIORDAN I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
GARY LUCAS I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot ...
STEVE LACY It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't c...
BILLY HIGGINS Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players.
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ARTURO O'FARRILL I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the wa...
IRIS APFEL I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American j...
JAMIE MUIR Jazz music is constantly evolving and women have long been instrumental in shaping the landscape of ...
DEREK E. GORDON We're dedicated to supporting mainstream jazz, and we don't veer too far off from that. But we do sp...
CAROL STONE What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. Th...
MAXIM GORKY The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice
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HERB ALPERT I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i...
NAT WOLFF My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection ...
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LAUREN DAIGLE I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just ev...
GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA 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 But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona...
JACK SIMPSON I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
RITA COOLIDGE People say we're a jazz group. But there's no way I would ever call myself a jazz drummer. The only ...
ALAN EVANS In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of ...
SERJ TANKIAN People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened...
BRIA SKONBERG Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
MARC RIBOT At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t...
HERBIE HANCOCK I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where j...
AGNES OBEL Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja...
AL JARREAU There are a lot of young musicians out there performing what they think is Latin jazz but instead is...
EDDIE PALMIERI I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming ...
CHARLIE HADEN What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and...
WALTER BECKER Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me si...
ETTA JAMES Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a...
HERBIE HANCOCK Most of the people that I learned and experienced jazz with have been with foreign white people, mos...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
DANIEL BOULUD What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural preju...
MAXIM GORKY I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it. Jazz is there and g...
KEITH JARRETT I've always thought that jazz needs to be heard by a wider audience in Puerto Rico. I want to pu...
MIGUEL ZENON The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywh...
BONNIE RAITT In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist...
DAVID AMRAM Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prev...
DAVE BRUBECK Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers.
GLENN MARTIN There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.
NEIL PEART We wanted to jazz up the pants more.
DAVE WITTY What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz.
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JAZZ Time is precious If memories are gorgeous I was religious But i got meanless Do god love me? But he ...
JAZZ You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will be...
KURT ELLING Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listenin...
TONY WILSON If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would ha...
GEORGE BENSON It incorporates all these different styles of jazz, from modern to traditional, so the audience feel...
KATE BAKER I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has a...
LOU RAWLS Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
HENRI MATISSE Anyone who's a jazz purist doesn't really want to hear 'jazz' attached to our music, and that's some...
JASON FREY In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jaz...
CLINT EASTWOOD 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 sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century m...
KEN BURNS Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the t...
ANDRA DAY I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
TAJ MAHAL When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan...
MIGUEL ZENON I sat at his knee while 'Doc' played early New Orleans jazz and blues, Tin Pan Alley songs, and vaud...
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STEVEN VAN ZANDT When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiven...
DICK VAN DYKE Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a ...
MAMIE VAN DOREN I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
MAMIE VAN DOREN My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
MAMIE VAN DOREN I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
MAMIE VAN DOREN I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to...
MAMIE VAN DOREN It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
MAMIE VAN DOREN When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it...
DICK VAN DYKE There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... ...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle o...
GREG VAN EEKHOUT Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between t...
MARTIN VAN BUREN But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Four things a man must learn to doIf he would make his record true:To think without confusion clearl...
HENRY VAN DYKE Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at th...
HENRY VAN DYKE I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and...
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