Jazz Quotes - Page 25

• Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Music, Zoos, Inmates

  Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”

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• I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

  James Taylor

  Music, Play, People

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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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• If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

  Joshua Redman

  Music, Depth, Ifs

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• Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

  Robert Glasper

  Media, Secret, Majority

  "Glasper revels in success of hybrid jazz album". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 06, 2012.

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• Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Kids, Upset

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• I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, Thinking, Ties

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• One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

  Jon Anderson

  Music, Writing, Moments

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• Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

  Count Basie

  Music, Feet, Listening

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• The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  Count Basie

  Music, Real, Just Being

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• Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sarcastic, Imbeciles, Torture

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• I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Song, Jobs

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• I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Play, Way

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• When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Parent, England

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• To work is to feel alive.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, Alive, Feels

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• I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, World, Performers

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• Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, Names, Giving

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• A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Motivation, Design

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• If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

  Betty Carter

  Music, Bird, Tonight

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• I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

  Ron Carter

  Music, Halloween, Responsibility

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• If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

  Jim Croce

  Music, Ifs

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• The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

  Maynard Ferguson

  Music, Great Day, Know How

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• Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

  Mary Lou Williams

  Being Yourself, Playing Yourself, Musical

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• Music should always be an adventure.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Travel, Adventure

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• You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Boys, Men

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