Jazz Quotes - Page 24

• I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, America, World

  "Which Republican Candidate Would Make the Best Arts Nominee? The ARTINFO Endorsement" by Benjamin Genocchio, Andrew M. Goldstein and Chloe Wyma, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

  John Lescroart

  Country, Swings, Band

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• New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Dream, New York, Rocks

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• I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

  Oscar Peterson

  Musician, Critics, Hard

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• It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Important, Sound

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Oct 15, 2013

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• I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

  Oscar Peterson

  Thinking, Albums, Care

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• Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor

  Coleman Hawkins

  Thinking, People, Way

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• Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Swings, Said

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• I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.

  Woody Herman

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• I love my jazz hands!

  David Dickinson

  Jazz Hands, Hands

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• The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

  Don Herold

  Listening, Trouble, Enough

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• If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Learning, Cat

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• Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

  Miles Davis

  Brother, Musical, Revolution

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• As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience.

  Mark Knopfler

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

  Mary Lou Williams

  Being Yourself, Playing Yourself, Musical

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• A good player can make any guitar sound good.

  Mike Bloomfield

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

  Mike Stern

  Music, Gigs, Sometimes

  "Mike Stern: About The Music". Interview with All About Jazz, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 23, 2004.

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• You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Festivals, Next

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• Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Taught, Monk

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

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• I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Music, Borders, Three

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• Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself.
  I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound.

  Marcus Miller

  Names, Individuality, Sound

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• Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

  George Gershwin

  Powerful, Blood, People

  "The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music, 1933.

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• When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

  George Gershwin

  Country, America, Energy

  "Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources". Book editing by Daniel Albright (University of Chicago Press), essay "The Composer in the Machine Age" (1933), 2004.

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• An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

  George Gershwin

  Composition, Gershwin, Written

  "Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources". Book editing by Daniel Albright (University of Chicago Press), essay "The Composer in the Machine Age" (1933), 2004.

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• Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

  Scott Joplin

  Light, Musical, Shy

  Scott Joplin, Maurice Hinson (1990). “Scott Joplin at the Piano”, p.5, Alfred Music Publishing

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