Jazz Quotes - Page 36

• I am the worlds laziest writer.

  Oscar Peterson

  World

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• I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

  Oscar Peterson

  Believe, Air, Long

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• Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

  Oscar Peterson

  Long, Clubs, Montreal

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• There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?

  Artie Shaw

  Games, Playing Music, Why Not

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• Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music.

  Artie Shaw

  Baby, Giving, Tunes

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• I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.

  Artie Shaw

  Running, School, Talking

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• Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.

  Eddie Condon

  Guy, Ends, Careless

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• Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

  Eddie Condon

  Bourbon

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• This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.

  Eddie Condon

  Men, Play, Shoes

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• I never sing a song the same way twice.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Way

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• When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.

  Billie Holiday

  Play, Singing, Seems

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• Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

  Sayyid Qutb

  America, Desire, Noise

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• When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues

  Ray Davies

  Missing, Links, Moses

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• Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

  Brian McKnight

  School, Player, Band

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• Jazz is democracy in music.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Inspirational, Life, Democracy

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• In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

  David Amram

  Atmosphere, Church, Musician

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• What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

  Branford Marsalis

  America, Musical, Asking

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• Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

  Joseph Jarman

  Legends, Wells

  interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

  Gary Lucas

  Ignorance, Artist

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• I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

  Anita Diament

  World, Kind, Pops

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• Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

  Toots Thielemans

  Garden, Rose, Musician

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• I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

  Norman Granz

  Years, Fans, Trends

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• After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

  Robert Quine

  Exhausted

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• I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

  Boz Scaggs

  Singers, Arena

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• Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Form, Miles

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