Jazz Quotes - Page 16

• You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

  Al Jarreau

  Music, Effort, Decided

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• I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

  Keith Jarrett

  Music, Thinking, Knows

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• Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Music, Speak, Triumphant

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• Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Firsts, Sound

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• I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Play, Results

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• As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Play, Long

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• Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Player, Influence

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• Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Player, Vocabulary

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• I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

  Diana Krall

  Music, Missions

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• I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

  Diana Krall

  Music, Song, Writing

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• I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

  Diana Krall

  Music, Being The Best, Hard

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• The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

  Diana Krall

  Music, People, Figures

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• Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

  Diana Krall

  Music, Song, Feelings

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• I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

  Steve Lacy

  Music, Old Things, Sound

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• In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

  Steve Lacy

  Music, Want, Improvisation

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• What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

  Peggy Lee

  Music, Defense Mechanisms, Disruptive

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• The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

  John Lennon

  Music, Real, Real You

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• You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass.

  Russell Malone

  Music, Two, Littles

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• I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

  Chuck Mangione

  Music, Believe, Don't Believe

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• I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

  Chuck Mangione

  Music, Hands, Years

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• You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Play, Blues Music

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• Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Opportunity, Play

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• If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Play, House

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• If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Sand, Kicks

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• Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

  Branford Marsalis

  Music, Starting

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