Jazz Music Quotes - Page 6

• Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Sweet, Jazz, Music Is

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• Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Music, Jazz, Frequency

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• Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

  Francoise Sagan

  Feelings, Playing Jazz, Nonchalance

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• I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.

  Max Roach

  Music, Play, Skills

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• Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!

  Wynton Marsalis

  Ignorance, Greatness, Jazz

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• Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

  Keith Jarrett

  Music, Art, Jazz

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• Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

  Jan Hammer

  Growing Up, Growing, Jazz

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• I love jazz music and sad music.

  Fred Durst

  Sad Music, Jazz

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• Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

  Paul Whiteman

  Musical, Age, Machines

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• If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

  Ginger Baker

  Jazz, Ifs

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• Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Art, Giving

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• I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

  Abdullah Ibrahim

  Thinking, Men, Medicine

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• I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

  Kenny Burrell

  Music, Honesty, Jazz

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• Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Giving, Identity, Essentials

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• As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

  Doc Childre

  Beauty, Musician, Jazz

  Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (2000). “From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance”, p.192, HeartMath

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• Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Track, Choices, Musician

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

  Anthony Braxton

  Music, Gone, Jazz

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• What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Music, Keys, Jazz

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• Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Thinking, Play

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• A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Imagination, World

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• Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.

  Chick Corea

  Music, Blue, Play

  "Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece". Book by Ashley Kahn, www.cnn.com. 2000.

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• Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

  Anais Nin

  Echoes, Giving, Secret

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• Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

  David Sanborn

  Different, Jazz, Kind

  "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.

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• I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.

  Tony Bennett

  New York, Growing Up, Memories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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