Jazz Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

  Billy Higgins

  Long, Long Time

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• If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Blow, Soul

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• Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

  Bill Griffith

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, America

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• You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.

  Ernest Gaines

  Moving, Athlete, Crafts

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

  Lorde

  Fashion, Brother, Dad

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• Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Memorable, Hands, Needs

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• Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

  Lilian Thuram

  Beautiful, Football, Artist

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

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• For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

  Scott Henderson

  Player, Expression, Intellectual

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• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  Pat Conroy

  Music, Journey, Desert

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Epitome, Armstrong

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• Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Nice, Player, Doe

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.206, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass.

  Paul Zollo

  Music, Country, Boys

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• I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Music, Player, Style

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• When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Way, Comedy

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• I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

  Deepika Padukone

  Dad, Appreciate, Lines

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

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• If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz is a music of surprise; its a music of spontaneity. I think jazz musicians live--I know I do--for being surprised and not knowing whats going to come next.

  Joshua Redman

  Thinking, Knowing, Musician

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• Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music.

  Kurt Rosenwinkel

  Fusion, Magnet, Soulful

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• The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.

  Doris Day

  Voice, Trying, Quality

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• I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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• I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented !

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Dream, Years, Two

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