Jazz Quotes - Page 14

• I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

  Skitch Henderson

  Music, Artist

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• We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

  Woody Herman

  Music, Cutting, Boys

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• Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

  Charlie Hunter

  Music, Thinking, Style

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• If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

  Milt Jackson

  Music, Four, Chorus

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• What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Music, Thinking, Kill Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Play, Results

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• As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Play, Long

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• Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Player, Vocabulary

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• I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

  Diana Krall

  Music, Missions

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• The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

  Diana Krall

  Music, People, Figures

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• I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

  Steve Lacy

  Music, Old Things, Sound

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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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• As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

  Zoot Sims

  Music, Long, Mouths

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• If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

  Zoot Sims

  Music, Play, People

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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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• If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Music, Feel Good

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• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Failure, Adversity

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

  Peggy Lee

  Music, Defense Mechanisms, Disruptive

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• The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

  John Lennon

  Music, Real, Real You

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• You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass.

  Russell Malone

  Music, Two, Littles

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• I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

  Chuck Mangione

  Music, Believe, Don't Believe

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• I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

  Chuck Mangione

  Music, Hands, Years

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• You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Play, Blues Music

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• Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Opportunity, Play

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