Jazz Quotes - Page 26

• Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo. And like jazz, once we get going, we can play all night. Extrovert conversations are more like tennis matches, where thoughts are batted back and forth, and players need to be ready to respond. Introverts get winded pretty quickly.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Nice, Player, Night

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• Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

  Justin Guarini

  Want, Starting, Format

  "Justin Guarini says he has no hard feelings for 'IDOL' - really!" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 23, 2006.

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• I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

  Justin Guarini

  Fun, Voice, Piano

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• Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

  Alexis Korner

  My Family, Left

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• As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

  Edgar Winter

  Great American, Blues Music, Contribution

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• All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

  Mose Allison

  Player, Ems, Classic

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• The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way.

  Wesley Willis

  Music, Horse, Real

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• Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

  Willie "The Lion" Smith

  Heart, Soul, Humans

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• You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church

  Art Blakey

  Music, Rocks, Church

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• That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

  Art Blakey

  America, Mind, Culture

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• You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

  Melissa Manchester

  Singers, Lasts, Pops

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• Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice and she’s a great songwriter as well

  Jamie Cullum

  Voice, Parks, Lizzy

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• John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator.

  Albert Ayler

  Spiritual, Trying, Levels

  "As Serious As Your Life". Book by Valerie Wilmer, 1977.

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• I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.

  Sun Ra

  Thinking, Mystery

  Interview with Jennifer Rycenga, November 2, 1988.

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• I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.

  Sun Ra

  People, Needs, Earth

  Press release by A&M Records, 1989.

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• Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.

  Sun Ra

  Air, Honor, Noble

  Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already
  know my music.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Brother, Space

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• I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Dark, Black

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• I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

  Anthony Braxton

  Play, African American, Musician

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• Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

  Anthony Braxton

  Vibrations, Rhythm

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• The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

  Billy Higgins

  Long, Long Time

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• I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

  Ornette Coleman

  Broke, Heard, Wanted

  Esquire, January 2010.

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• That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

  Ornette Coleman

  Thinking, Talking, Play

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• We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Class, Suffering

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• I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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