Jazz Quotes - Page 40

• The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.

  Katie Noonan

  Art, Skills, People

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• My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

  Ishmael Reed

  Poetry, Musician, Able

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• Jazz is the music of unemployment.

  Frank Zappa

  Unemployment

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

  Nat King Cole

  Artist, African American

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• You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

  Bob Seger

  Song, Rap, Roots

  "Rock and Roll Never Forgets: An Interview With Bob Seger". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.

  Herbie Mann

  Inspiration, People, Like You

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• I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Cat, Night

  FaceBook post by Ralph Bakshi from Dec 15, 2014

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• In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

  Michael Parkinson

  Views, Musician, Great Music

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• Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Class, Play, Feelings

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• A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Parent, Musician, Dinner

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• I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

  Maisie Williams

  Dancing, Ballet, Streets

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• My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

  Etta James

  Mother, Singers, Wanted

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• I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

  Debi Mazar

  Girl, Nice, Turkeys

  "Debi Mazar's Tuscan-Style Thanksgiving". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.

  Herbie Hancock

  Country, Past, Voice

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• Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

  Chris Barber

  Thinking, Play, Too Much

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• Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

  Chris Barber

  Pace, England, More Time

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• Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

  Steve Lawson

  Beautiful, Journey, Guitar

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• It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.

  Scott Yanow

  Voice, Soul, Gray Area

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• Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.

  Scott Yanow

  Century, Heard, 21st Century

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• When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.

  Herbie Hancock

  Expression, Blood, Bullets

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• The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

  Norman Granz

  Fashion, Names, People

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• I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

  Herbie Hancock

  Change, Long, Happenings

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• I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Years, Europe, Four

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• In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

  Dexter Gordon

  Europe, Influence

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• Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

  Marc Ribot

  Europe, Achievement, Different

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