Jazz Quotes - Page 37

• My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

  Chico Hamilton

  Player, Rocks, Two

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• Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

  Alan Vega

  Listening, Classical Music

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• I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

  Rita Coolidge

  Journey, Records, Barbara

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

  Norman Granz

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• I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, Influence, Abstract

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Father, Home, African American

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• My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

  Jan Hammer

  Mother, Singers, Today

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• I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

  Mose Allison

  Jobs, Night, Play

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• There's the tradition in jazz of having the “Battle of the Bands” and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Cutting, Battle, Band

  Interview with Steve LeVeille, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

  Chad Smith

  Song, Writing, Creative

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• Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

  John Corigliano

  People, Culture, Minorities

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 01, 2005.

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• That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

  Charlie Hunter

  Want, Kind, Solo

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• I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

  Doc Severinsen

  Play, Focus, Trumpets

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• One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

  Branford Marsalis

  Halloween, Successful, Community

  "Branford Marsalis: It's All About The Band". Interview with Russ Musto, www.allaboutjazz.com. January 12, 2005.

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• After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.

  Gunther Schuller

  War, Taken, Fusion

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• I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

  Rita Coolidge

  Player, Thinking, Challenges

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• Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

  Herb Alpert

  Player, Circles, Trumpets

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• If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Rocks, Play, Use

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• I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Dark, Thinking

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• I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

  Johnny Ramone

  Berries, Chuck

  "Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone".

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• I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

  Alexis Korner

  Player, Men

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• Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Melting, Influence, Pot

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• Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

  Dave Brubeck

  Discipline

  "Dave Brubeck celebrates a swinging 85th", www.today.com. December 8, 2005.

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• A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

  Steve Lacy

  Athlete, Artist, Dancer

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• My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

  Haley Reinhart

  Dad, Latin, Rocks

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