Jazz Music Quotes - Page 15

• The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Brother, People, Musician

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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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• I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

  Molly Ringwald

  Musical, Comfort, Want

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• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  Nat Wolff

  Dad, Live In The Moment, Acting

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

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• I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

  Nat Wolff

  Avid, Play, Important

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

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• A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

  Robert Glasper

  People, Trying, Musician

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball. They're the three most beautifully designed things this culture has ever produced.

  Gerald Early

  Music, Baseball, Thinking

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• Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

  Michelle Obama

  Ethnicity, People, Age

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• Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

  John Clellon Holmes

  Years, White, America

  1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.

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• My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can’t be reduced to a contest.

  Bennie Wallace

  Art, Greatness, Expression

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• But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.

  Romare Bearden

  Thinking, Movement, Jazz

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• It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

  Don Ellis

  Years, Style, Hips

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• I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

  Donald Fagen

  Kids, Years, Play

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• By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

  Ken Burns

  Music, Jazz, Persons

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• Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

  Joe Lovano

  Jazz, Charlie, Dance Floor

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• Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.

  Brian Regan

  Dirty, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.

  John Waters

  Musician, Sound, Jazz

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

  Ishmael Reed

  Poetry, Musician, Able

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• Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

  George Carlin

  Music, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented !

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Dream, Years, Two

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• Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music.

  Kurt Rosenwinkel

  Fusion, Jazz, Magnet

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• In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

  Michael Parkinson

  Views, Musician, Jazz

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• Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Class, Play, Feelings

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• Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

  Andy Richter

  People, Brain, Musician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.

  Nicole Beharie

  New York, Fun, Artist

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