Jazz Quotes - Page 34

• I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Years, Ballet

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• I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

  Greg Ginn

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• John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.

  Larry Coryell

  Play, Use, Originality

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• Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues far beyond the pale of the accepted definitions of keyboard competence. Whether on piano or organ, when you hear Bruce Katz you know it's him, unmistakably and uniquely.

  Larry Coryell

  Unique, Piano, Musical

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• A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

  Ken Burns

  Beats, Rhythm

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• I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, People, Democracy

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• We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.

  Miles Davis

  Play, White, Ems

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• At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

  Miles Davis

  Years, Giving, One Day

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• As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

  Miles Davis

  White, Long, Guy

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• I still got my Ferrari.

  Miles Davis

  Ferrari, Stills

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• Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk out in front of his face - and I never did - then somebody should have just come and got me and taken me to the madhouse, because Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall.

  Miles Davis

  Beautiful, Strong, Wall

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

  Miles Davis

  Play, Coltrane, Cant

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• I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

  Miles Davis

  Stupid, People, Dixieland

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• Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

  Miles Davis

  Doe, Genius, Keith

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• [Bebop is] Chinese music.

  Louis Armstrong

  Chinese, Bebop, Chinese Music

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• There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.

  Louis Armstrong

  Two, Way, Enjoy

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• Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

  Louis Armstrong

  Cat, Sick, Littles

  "Louis Armstrong - The Reluctant Millionaire". "Ebony" Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 1, November 1964.

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• I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Spades

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• Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?

  Charles Mingus

  Order, Play, Waiting

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• It (jazz) isn't like it used to be. The guys aren't together. They're all separated. Individuals now. Bird was a symbol. It was a clique, a clique of people. Who all believed in one thing: gettin' high. And playin'.

  Charles Mingus

  People, Guy, Bird

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• Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

  Thelonious Monk

  Sound, Ears, Want

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• Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

  Thelonious Monk

  Miles, Ifs

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• A genius is the one most like himself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Genius, Monk

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• Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

  Thelonious Monk

  Mean, Drummer, Monk

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• I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.

  Thelonious Monk

  Clock, Knows, Ten

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