Jazz Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• When you sing, always tell the truth.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Telling The Truth

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• I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Hunger

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

  Charlie Hunter

  Music, Trios, Sound

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• I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

  Dave Brubeck

  Swings, Teach, My Own

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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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• Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

  Ahmad Jamal

  Music, Mean, Practice

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• Once you discover that you can, then you must.

  Al Jarreau

  Music

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• You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

  Al Jarreau

  Music, Effort, Decided

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• I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

  Keith Jarrett

  Music, Thinking, Knows

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• Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Music, Speak, Triumphant

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• Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Firsts, Sound

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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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• Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Player, Influence

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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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• I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

  Diana Krall

  Music, Song, Writing

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• I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

  Diana Krall

  Music, Being The Best, Hard

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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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• Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

  Diana Krall

  Music, Song, Feelings

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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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