Jazz Quotes - Page 36

• I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.

  Sun Ra

  People, Needs, Earth

  Press release by A&M Records, 1989.

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• Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.

  Sun Ra

  Air, Honor, Noble

  Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already
  know my music.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Brother, Space

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• I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Dark, Black

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• I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

  Anthony Braxton

  Play, African American, Musician

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• Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

  Anthony Braxton

  Vibrations, Rhythm

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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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• I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

  Ornette Coleman

  Broke, Heard, Wanted

  Esquire, January 2010.

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• That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

  Ornette Coleman

  Thinking, Talking, Play

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• We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Class, Suffering

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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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• I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

  Bob Iger

  Holiday, Singers, Way

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• What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.)

  Michele Norris

  Ipods, Rocks, Hip Hop

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• Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

  Sean Wilentz

  Reading, Kids, Library

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• If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

  Ice T

  Player, Needs, Miles

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• If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

  Pat Metheny

  Sea, Water, Wave

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• I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

  Andrew Hill

  Music, Crazy, Eccentric

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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 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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