Jazz Music Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

  Andy Richter

  People, Brain, Musician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.

  Nicole Beharie

  New York, Fun, Artist

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• I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

  Donald Byrd

  School, Cat, Rocks

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• Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

  Georgie Fame

  Thinking, Rocks, Differences

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• I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

  Sonny Rollins

  Drinking, Musician, Clubs

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• When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music.

  Stan Getz

  Art, Real, Dedication

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• I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

  Bobby Seale

  America, Musician, Add

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• It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

  Don Ellis

  Years, Style, Hips

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• I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

  Donald Fagen

  Kids, Years, Play

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• But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.

  Romare Bearden

  Thinking, Movement, Jazz

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• My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can’t be reduced to a contest.

  Bennie Wallace

  Art, Greatness, Expression

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• Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

  John Clellon Holmes

  Years, White, America

  1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.

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• Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

  Michelle Obama

  Ethnicity, People, Age

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• A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

  Robert Glasper

  People, Trying, Musician

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

  Nat Wolff

  Avid, Play, Important

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

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• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  Nat Wolff

  Dad, Live In The Moment, Acting

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

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• I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

  Molly Ringwald

  Musical, Comfort, Want

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• I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.

  Joe Sample

  New York, Moving, Player

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• The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Brother, People, Musician

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• The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

  Ken Burns

  Art, Land, Community

  "Ken Burns and Yusef Salaam Talk THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE; Plus Burns Talks Upcoming Projects like THE ROOSEVELTS, JACKIE ROBINSON and VIETNAM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2012.

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• Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Book, Cities, Kansas City

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• Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

  Joe Lovano

  Jazz, Charlie, Dance Floor

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• Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.

  Brian Regan

  Dirty, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.

  John Waters

  Musician, Sound, Jazz

  Source: www.timeout.com

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