Jazz Quotes - Page 13

• You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.

  S. E. Hinton

  Rumble, Knows

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.93, Penguin

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• Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Coffee, Blue, Carbon Footprint

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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• I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, School, Church Choir

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• Never lose the groove to find a note.

  Victor Wooten

  Music, Notes, Groove

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• Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Country, Expression

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• I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

  Jimmy Page

  Music, Optimistic, Rocks

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• The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Art, Would Be

  What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2

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• The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.

  Billy Taylor

  Music, Rocks, People

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• This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"

  Bob Brookmeyer

  Music, Play, Albums

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• Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

  Brian Blade

  Music, Thinking, People

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• Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

  Cannonball Adderley

  Music, Mind, Facts

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• What's interesting about a person without problems?

  Carla Bley

  Music, Interesting, Problem

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Music, Encouragement

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• I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Thinking, Creative, Musician

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• Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Art, Giving

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• You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Textbooks

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• One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Reason, Process

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• They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Dance, Long

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• Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

  Charlie Haden

  Music, Art, Creative

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• I don't dig staying in one groove.

  Chico Hamilton

  Music, Stay Strong, Groove

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• Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

  Lionel Hampton

  Music, Men, Long

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• How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Mean, Understanding

  Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.15, Random House

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• External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

  Yusef Lateef

  Music, Instruments, Extensions

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• It is people's hearts that move the age.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Moving, Heart

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• In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Art, Choices

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