Jazz Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

  Steve Lacy

  Music, Want, Improvisation

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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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• If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Play, House

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• If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Sand, Kicks

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• Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

  Branford Marsalis

  Music, Starting

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• My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

  Branford Marsalis

  Music, Song, Jobs

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• So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

  Branford Marsalis

  Music, Students, Audience

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• Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

  Branford Marsalis

  Music, Simplicity, Looks

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• You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

  Branford Marsalis

  Music, Order, Like You

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• A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Moments, Beats

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• My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Witty, Directors, Firsts

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• I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  New Orleans, Cities, Kansas City

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• The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

  Bix Beiderbecke

  Song, Band, Chiefs

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• Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.

  Bix Beiderbecke

  Musical, Technique, Nouns

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• My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

  Brian Setzer

  Player, Guitar, Made

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• The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.

  Brian Setzer

  Country, Song, Unique

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• Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Football, Team

  Phil Jackson (2005). “The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul”, Penguin Group USA

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