Jazz Quotes - Page 21

• I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

  Branford Marsalis

  Play, Albums, Funk

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• I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.

  Ice T

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

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• I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

  Karen Black

  Player, Guitar, Trios

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• I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented !

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Dream, Years, Two

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• I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

  Jerry Hall

  Rocks, Littles, Rock N Roll

  "Jerry Hall turns 57! Looking back at her hottest fashions and fierce Texan one-liners" by Lucy Buckland, www.mirror.co.uk. July 02, 2013.

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• Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

  B. B. King

  Music, World, My Favorite

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• For me, music and life are all about style.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Style, Jazz And Life

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1989). “Miles, the autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Notes

  "Biopic Of The Cool: Don Cheadle Channels A Jazz Legend In 'Miles Ahead'" by Amy Nicholson, www.mtv.com. March 30, 2016.

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• Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.

  Miles Davis

  Sweet, Bird, Challenges

  "Miles, the autobiography".

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• I have a respect for Elvis and my friendship. It ain't my business what he did in private. The only thing I want to know is, 'Was he my friend?', 'Did I enjoy him as a performer?', 'Did he give the world of entertainment something?' - and the answer is YES on all accounts. The other jazz just don't matter.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Giving, World, Want

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• I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.

  Frank Oz

  Kids, Gay, World

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• I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

  Dave Brubeck

  Swings, Teach, My Own

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• The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats.  Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.  You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you.  But then you start playing for yourself.  Show them that you're an individual.  And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.

  Lester Young

  Music, Teacher, Hands

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• People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

  Alan Lomax

  Song, Land, People

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• Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

  Nat Hentoff

  Art, Fortune, Masters

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• I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

  Jon Secada

  Bachelors, Masters

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• You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close to him. But after six years he feels the urge to get in the studio with musicans he likes. He closely follows bands like Arcade Fire in recent months. But he is inspired by ancient Chinese folk and jazz these days as well.

  Gail Ann Dorsey

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

  Keith Emerson

  Country, Player, Bass

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• As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

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• And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Jazz Improvisation, How You Feel, Music Is

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• To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

  Cecil Taylor

  Music, Piano, Orchestra

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• In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.

  Cecil Taylor

  Beautiful, Mean, Artist

  "John Coltrane". Book by Bill Cole, 1976.

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• Listening is the key to everything good in music.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Keys, Guitar

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

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Way, Unexpected

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• Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Powerful, Ideas

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