Wynton Marsalis
Related Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja... AL JARREAU But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona... JACK SIMPSON Your fear can be Fear of rejection but fear is really just miss placed faith SUPAH VAIPULU I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of... DAMIEN CHAZELLE You got to have a lot of desire I guess and then the other thing is you got can't have any fear, and... WALT DAVIS The most important element to jazz music is being able to improvise. You learn the language of the m... ERIC ESSEX LAURA MVULA NINA SIMONE It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing... BO BENNETT It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparin... BO BENNETT I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis. CHRISTIAN SCOTT But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz,... AMY RAY I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ... J. J. JOHNSON Jazz music is constantly evolving and women have long been instrumental in shaping the landscape of ... DEREK E. GORDON DONALD MILLER DAVID SANBORN ECKHART TOLLE T. D. JAKES Masks have a tortured history in the United States, creating fear and fear of physical violence on t... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to ... HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too muc... CHRIS BARBER In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a... DAMIEN CHAZELLE if there is any worry in your mind, and if at that moment the words 'My Lord' comes to your lips, th... SWAMI SHARNANAND JI Most of the people that I learned and experienced jazz with have been with foreign white people, mos... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would ha... GEORGE BENSON GARY OWENS PAT METHENY LADY GAGA If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru... GORDON ATKINSON HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. MARC RIBOT [He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz pu... AL HIRT While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delig... FRANK RICH And my answer is very simple. One day somebody stuck a big tattoo on my arm, or on the festival, and... CLAUDE NOBS [Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's... LIONEL HAMPTON I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicia... SONNY ROLLINS ESPERANZA SPALDING I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. RITA COOLIDGE Manage the fear of failure. It will visit many times as you work the plan. Face the fear in your min... TERENCE T. GORSKI SAM SMITH KELLY MARTIN AVINA CELESTE Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz i... BILLY HIGGINS BUDDY DEFRANCO If you fear nothing, then there is nothing that can stop you from getting to the top. Fear is the en... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I tell kids to have dreams, have goals, and believe in them because if you have any doubt, worry or ... TORII HUNTER Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu... ALOE BLACC Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o... ARTURO O'FARRILL ERIC BURDON NINA SIMONE HUNTER S. THOMPSON Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a... HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and t... AL JARREAU We are already beginning to see that played out with the fund-raisers that are being organized by Wy... JACK STEWART PAT METHENY JAMES FREY NAT WOLFF It's sort of an unusual situation, given that there aren't any longstanding places to go hear jazz i... JACK SIMPSON Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows... DONALD HARRISON YO-YO MA ROY T. BENNETT I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. ANITA DIAMENT As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, bu... JAN VOGLER OG MANDINO Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really t... DAVE BRUBECK One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classi... IRVIN MAYFIELD The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. NORMAN GRANZ THOMAS MERTON THOMAS MERTON There really are two different ways of approaching music. There's the real pop way where it's like h... BRUCE HORNSBY LOUIS ARMSTRONG THOMAS MERTON CHIN-NING CHU GRAHAM SWIFT Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but ja... BILLY HIGGINS You professed your love and quietly stole my heart, I know that was not your intent but it happened.... STARGAZER I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming ... CHARLIE HADEN Never fear failure if any endeavour is taken.Desire for success should be greater than your fear of ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It incorporates all these different styles of jazz, from modern to traditional, so the audience feel... KATE BAKER In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require yo... DAVE HOLLAND SUZY KASSEM You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they'... CASEY ABRAMS LOUIS ARMSTRONG KEVIN BACON SERJ TANKIAN SHANNON L. ALDER That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to ca... CHARLIE HUNTER CHARLIE WATTS So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instr... MIROSLAV VITOUS SHANNON L. ALDER ERICA JONG SHANNON L. ALDER In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't requir... DAVE HOLLAND As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's... CHARLIE HADEN When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period... HIROMI UEHARA CYNTHIA VOIGT DAVE MUSTAINE Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people... RITA COOLIDGE
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I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the ja... 
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b... 
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in... 
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te... 
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ul... 
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe... 
Never fear to lose your three square meal per day if that will cause you to be a fan of the truth. N... 
Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience... 
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalit... 
My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, ... 
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to b... 
You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I ... 
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music... 
Sometimes the fear of your soul's purpose is overridden by your heart's knowing that now is the time... 
Live beyond your fear. This is your life, the good, the bad, all yours. The change you want is beyon... 
When you're playing jazz, you have to somehow overcome that feeling of being intimidated because... 
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the b... 
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really... 
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is no... 
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz... 
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been inf... 
You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you. 
Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear m... 
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid... 
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid... 
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. 
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to ... 
In spite of your fear, do what you have to do. 
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, bu... 
There is no such thing as fear until you allow it to enter your heart. If I told you what really hap... 
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I d... 
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of y... 
Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life.... 
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn&#... 
Your blessings lay beyond your fear. 
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as p... 
I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I f... 
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your... 
There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there... 
it ain't as hard as picking cotton 
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybo... 
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoide... 
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it ho... 
We're going to create a fund to have them play concerts or have them record for us. We're talking ab...