Jazz Music Quotes - Page 5

• They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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  If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Jazz, Asks

  "Jazz Giants of the 20th Century/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

  John McLaughlin

  Music, School, Mean

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• Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

  Paul Whiteman

  Music, Years, America

  1926 Jazz.

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• The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception.  All you can do is play melody.  No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Voice

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• In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

  Charles Mingus

  Play, Trying, Jazz And Life

  Charles Mingus' statement to Nat Hentoff as quoted in Anthony Fawcett "California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California" (p. 56), 1979, and in "Jazz: Beyond Time and Nations" in Nat Hentoff "The Nat Hentoff Reader" (p. 99), October 17, 2001.

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• If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

  Joe Pass

  Inspirational, Music, Guitar

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• Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Moving, Jazz

  "Coltrane plays standards".

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• The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.

  Bobby Hutcherson

  Music, Waiting, Jazz

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• Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Play, African American

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• The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

  Bobby Hutcherson

  Music, Jazz, Swept Away

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• One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

  Bix Beiderbecke

  Music, Kids, Next

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• I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Musical, Jazz

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• It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Keys, Play

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• Jazz is the music of the body.

  Anais Nin

  Body, Jazz

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• It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Intelligent, Ears

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• Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

  Nina Simone

  Music, White, Racism

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

  Art Blakey

  Country, Art, America

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• Never play anything the same way twice.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Play, Way

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• Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Autobiography (published in 1924).

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• The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Important, Looks

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• Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Writing, Play

  "An Open Letter To Miles Davis". Charles Mingus, Downbeat Magazine, November 30, 1955.

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• I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

  Pepper Adams

  Music, Scotch, Favors

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• Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

  Christina Aguilera

  Pain, Passion, Soul

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• Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Decision, Splits

  Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.8, Random House

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