Jazz Music Quotes - Page 16

• Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

  Toots Thielemans

  Music, Alive, Playing Jazz

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• I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

  Donald Byrd

  School, Cat, Rocks

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• Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

  Georgie Fame

  Thinking, Rocks, Differences

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• I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

  Sonny Rollins

  Drinking, Musician, Clubs

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• Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Jazz, Emotion

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• We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

  Chad Smith

  Song, Writing, Creative

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• When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music.

  Stan Getz

  Art, Real, Dedication

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• What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Music, Thinking, Jazz

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• If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

  Pete Fountain

  Music, Thinking, People

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