Free Jazz Quotes

• My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Spiritual, Expression

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• The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.

  Henry Rollins

  Blow, Talking, Ideas

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Daughter, Mother

  "At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene". Book by Nat Hentoff, 2010.

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• Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Smell, Rock N Roll

  Song: Be-Bop Tango, 1974

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• Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

  John Philip Sousa

  Music, Feet, Long

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.52, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

  Brian Eno

  Musical, Want, Muscles

  "When Brian Eno met Ha-Joon Chang". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2012.

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• I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.

  Joe Sample

  New York, Moving, Player

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• Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

  Lilian Thuram

  Beautiful, Football, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

  David First

  Inspiration, Tradition, Funk

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• Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

  Jon Pareles

  Volcanoes, Play, Piano

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• In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.

  Scott Walker

  Teenage, Years, Hardcore

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