Jazz Musician Quotes - Page 6

• I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

  Lester Bowie

  Mean, Musician, Firsts

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• I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.

  Hiromi

  School, People, Musician

  "The Energy Is One: An Interview With Hiromi Uehara". Interview with Wayne Zade, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 20, 2003.

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• Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Fire, Musician

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Art, Night

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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 jazz music I love is there in my music.

  Laura Mvula

  Dream, Love Is, Thinking

  "Meet Our Latest Music Crush: Laura Mvula". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. March 28, 2013.

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• I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.

  Sonny Rollins

  Musician, Way, Facts

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• There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's - but I used to study with Junior Mance, and he would tell me about Bradley's. It was a very important place for a generation of jazz musicians in New York. It was really all about pianists there.

  Jose James

  New York, Important, Musician

  Source: revive-music.com

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• A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Parent, Musician, Dinner

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• I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

  Carlos Santana

  Musician, Jazz, Shows

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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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• 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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• 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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• Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

  Ralph Ellison

  Play, Style, Musician

  Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.364, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be coaxed out of them, it has nothing to do with the phases of the moon or even how they feel that day. They go on stage and start playing. Being creative is their job.

  John Kao

  Teacher, Jobs, Creativity

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Rocks, Long, Musician

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word.

  Pharoah Sanders

  Music, Artist, Sound

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• If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Artist, Giving, Musician

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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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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• In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

  Michael Parkinson

  Views, Musician, Jazz

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• 'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

  Artie Shaw

  Swings, Musician, Adjectives

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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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• [Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

  Van Morrison

  Cutting, Rocks, Musician

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.

  Van Morrison

  Mean, Rocks, Play

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."

  Carol Friedman

  Musician, Looks, Wow

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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