Jazz Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Swings, Said

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• I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.

  Woody Herman

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• The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

  Don Herold

  Listening, Trouble, Enough

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• If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Learning, Cat

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• Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

  Miles Davis

  Brother, Musical, Revolution

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• As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience.

  Mark Knopfler

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

  Mike Stern

  Music, Gigs, Sometimes

  "Mike Stern: About The Music". Interview with All About Jazz, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 23, 2004.

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• You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Festivals, Next

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• I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Music, Borders, Three

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• Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

  George Gershwin

  Powerful, Blood, People

  "The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music, 1933.

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• When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

  George Gershwin

  Country, America, Energy

  "Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources". Book editing by Daniel Albright (University of Chicago Press), essay "The Composer in the Machine Age" (1933), 2004.

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