Jazz Quotes - Page 26

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

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Boys, Men

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• If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

  Eddie Harris

  Music, Believe, Ifs

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• Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Giving, Dizzy

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• When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, New York, Different

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• They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Want, Hard

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• Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

  Stanley Jordan

  Music, Circles, Genius

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• To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

  Michel Legrand

  Music, Spiritual, Play

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• Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

  Brad Mehldau

  Music, Damaged Goods, Nostalgia

  "Brad Mehldau's Opening, Middle And Endgame". Interview with Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 7, 2003.

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• I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

  Glenn Miller

  Music, Band, Want

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• Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

  George Shearing

  Music, Creativity, Firsts

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• Music is interior decoration.

  Wayne Shorter

  Music, Decoration, Interiors

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• You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

  Carly Simon

  Inspiring, Music, Looks

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• Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Music, Jazz Music, Frequency

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• It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

  Steve Winwood

  Music, Passion, Discipline

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Taken, Marijuana, Musician

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• I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, Girl, People

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• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Success, Hard Work, Writing

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• We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Stars, Hip Hop

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• Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Technology, Media, Fiction

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Exercise, Night

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 4 (1956).

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• Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Real, Mean

  "Herbie Hancock: All That's Jazz". "SoCal Connected" with Michael Okwu, www.kcet.org.

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• Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Art, Canvas, Possibility

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• The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too.

  John Jensen

  Magic, Trombone

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• Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sarcastic, Imbeciles, Torture

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• Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Music, Hurt, Piano

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