Jazz Quotes - Page 33

• And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

  Debra Wilson

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• Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.

  Stefon Harris

  Mistake, Opportunity

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• Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

  Miles Davis

  Music, Heroin, Shots

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• Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

  Wayne Shorter

  Music, Clouds, Patterns

  Twitter post from May 15, 2017

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• Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Men, Differences

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• ... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

  Keith Jarrett

  Taken, Player, Musician

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• My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

  Chuck Mangione

  Brother, School, Play

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• Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

  Branford Marsalis

  New Orleans, Talking, New Day

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• Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

  Ikue Mori

  Art, Thinking, Lunch

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• They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

  Lester Bowie

  Lying, Years, Doe

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• Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

  Lester Bowie

  Mistake, Cat, Thinking

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• The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz and otherwise, that you're exposed to. The challenge is to use all that in your own way, to personalize all that has come before you and all that is happening around you. To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.

  Dave Kikoski

  Challenges, Style, Want

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• Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

  Eddie Condon

  Said, Cases, Clarinet

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• I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

  Clark Terry

  Yesterday, Cds, Together

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• I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.

  Blythe Danner

  Rocks, Fans, Towns

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• Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

  Colin Greenwood

  Musician, Groups, Tools

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Art, Thinking, Loud

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• The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.

  Stanley Crouch

  Moving, Airplane, Light

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• I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thinking, Band, Stuff

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• Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

  Jan Garbarek

  World, Classical Music, Baroque Music

  "London jazz festival 2012: Where has Jan Garbarek gone? I miss him" by John Lewis, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

  Lee Konitz

  Listening, Classical Music, Enjoy

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• Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Heart, Cool Jazz, Bebop

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• We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way.

  Steve Miller

  Real, Rocks, Play

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• Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

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• America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?

  Michael Bywater

  Beer, Night, Ideas

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