Jazz Quotes - Page 19

• Music is interior decoration.

  Wayne Shorter

  Music, Decoration, Interiors

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• You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

  Carly Simon

  Inspiring, Music, Looks

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• Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Music, Jazz Music, Frequency

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• It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

  Steve Winwood

  Music, Passion, Discipline

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Taken, Marijuana, Musician

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• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Success, Hard Work, Writing

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• We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Stars, Hip Hop

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• Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Technology, Media, Fiction

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Exercise, Night

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 4 (1956).

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• Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Real, Mean

  "Herbie Hancock: All That's Jazz". "SoCal Connected" with Michael Okwu, www.kcet.org.

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• Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Art, Canvas, Possibility

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• The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too.

  John Jensen

  Magic, Trombone

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• Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sarcastic, Imbeciles, Torture

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• Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Music, Hurt, Piano

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• If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Blow, Soul

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• Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

  Bill Griffith

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, America

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• You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.

  Ernest Gaines

  Moving, Athlete, Crafts

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

  Lorde

  Fashion, Brother, Dad

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• Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Memorable, Hands, Needs

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• Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

  Lilian Thuram

  Beautiful, Football, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

  Scott Henderson

  Player, Expression, Intellectual

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• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  Pat Conroy

  Music, Journey, Desert

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Epitome, Armstrong

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• Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Nice, Player, Doe

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.206, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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