Jazz Quotes - Page 17

• My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

  Branford Marsalis

  Music, Song, Jobs

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• So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

  Branford Marsalis

  Music, Students, Audience

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• Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

  Branford Marsalis

  Music, Simplicity, Looks

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• You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

  Branford Marsalis

  Music, Order, Like You

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• A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Moments, Beats

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• I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Singers, Heard

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• I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, School, Church Choir

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• Never lose the groove to find a note.

  Victor Wooten

  Music, Notes, Groove

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• Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

  Mike Zwerin

  Music, Outlaw, Musician

  1985 La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing Under the Nazis, ch.4.

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• Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

  Bennie Wallace

  Music, Art, Self

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• "Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

  Bill Frisell

  Music, Imagination, People

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• Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

  Clark Terry

  Music, School, College

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• Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

  Clark Terry

  Music, Musical

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• You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

  Earl Hines

  Music, Shoes, People

  Stanley Dance, Earl Hines (1983). “The World of Earl Hines”

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• Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.

  Greg Thomas

  Music, Integrity, Expression

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• I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.

  Steve Turre

  Music, Feel Better, Thinking

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• Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

  Tom Harrell

  Music, Powerful, Intertwined

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• Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.

  Clark Terry

  Music, Sound, Feels

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• I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

  George Shearing

  Music, Tired, Years

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• When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

  George Shearing

  Music, Dog, People

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• Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Music, Zoos, Inmates

  Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”

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• I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

  James Taylor

  Music, Play, People

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• If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

  Joshua Redman

  Music, Depth, Ifs

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• Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Kids, Upset

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• I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, Thinking, Ties

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