Music Quotes - Page 38

• If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

  Joan Baez

  Meaningful, Song, Jazz

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• I hope you don't mind,
  I hope you don't mind,
  that I put into words,
  how wonderful life is,
  now you're in the world.

  Elton John

  Mind, World, Life Is

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• Long as I live
  Long as I breathe
  With every heartbeat
  I'll need you near me

  John Michael Montgomery

  Long, Needs, Breathe

  Song: Long As I Live, Album: John Michael Montgomery

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• I like the girls to match the upholstery of the car.

  Charlie Barnet

  Girl, Car, Upholstery

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

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• I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

  George Benson

  Cat, Jazz, Pleasure

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• I'm thankful
  For the blessing
  And the lessons that I've learned with you
  By my side

  Kelly Clarkson

  Blessing, Lessons, Sides

  Song: Thankful, Album: Thankful

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• Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

  Yogi Berra

  Simple, Jazz, Complicated

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• We're here to have a ball.

  Art Blakey

  Balls, Jazz

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• And I don't regret the rain
  Or the nights I felt the pain
  Or the tears I had to cry
  Some of those times along the way.
  Every road I had to take,
  Every time my heart would break,
  It was just something that I had to get through,
  To get me to you.

  Lila McCann

  Pain, Regret, Rain

  Song: To Get Me to You

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• It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

  Mariah Carey

  Hands, Long, Finding Love

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• Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

  Ray Brown

  Jazz, Feels

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• Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

  Dave Brubeck

  Skin Color, Soul, Mind

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• Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

  Ken Burns

  America, Jazz, Century

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• Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

  Landscape, Jazz, Wander

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• Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

  Sid Caesar

  Beautiful, Brother, Jazz

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• Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  Cab Calloway

  Clubs, Cotton, Jazz

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• What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking, Jazz, Kill Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  Van Cliburn

  Artist, Might, Jazz

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• The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

  Nat King Cole

  Funny, Talking, People

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• The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

  Ornette Coleman

  Jazz, Argument, Pleasure

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• Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

  Ahmad Jamal

  Mean, Practice, Play

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• Once you discover that you can, then you must.

  Al Jarreau

  Jazz

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• Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

  John Coltrane

  Fun, Guitar, Serious

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• Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, Glasses, Jazz

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• I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Pieces, Jazz, Formulas

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