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If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. -- Ginger Baker
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. -- Francoise Sagan
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. -- Jelly Roll Morton
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. -- Maynard Ferguson
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. -- Christina Aguilera
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. -- Miroslav Vitous
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. -- John McLaughlin
Jazz music is the power of now. -- Wynton Marsalis
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. -- Wynton Marsalis
This is so nice, it must be illegal. -- Fats Waller
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music. -- Jan Hammer
If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love. -- Mahalia Jackson
I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast. -- Paul Desmond
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. -- Fred Durst
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. -- Sonny Rollins
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much. -- Miles Davis
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. -- David Sanborn
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on. -- Gerry Mulligan
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. -- Jelly Roll Morton
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people. -- Dexter Gordon
I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside. -- Clark Terry
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. -- Henry Rollins
I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music. -- Laura Mvula
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement. -- Todd Boyd
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded. -- Molly Ringwald
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires. -- Wynton Marsalis
If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it. -- Esperanza Spalding
Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well. -- Christian McBride
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves. -- Sonny Rollins
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know? -- Christian Scott
I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?' -- Jackie McLean
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies. -- Albert Murray
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free. -- Nat Wolff
Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful. -- Jesse Stone
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it. -- David Sanborn
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art. -- Wynton Marsalis
Big band music, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the lyrics are really sweet, and they're just really family-friendly. The second thing is the music is jazz music, so the music is complicated enough to hold your attention for 5 or 6 million plays. That makes the songs interesting. The last part is the fact that it's danceable. -- John Tesh
Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form. -- Trevor St. John
We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living. -- George Benson
My music is jazz. -- Yusef Lateef
Jazz is democracy in music. -- Wynton Marsalis
Jazz is not background music. -- Horace Silver
Jazz is America's classical music. -- Billy Taylor
Jazz is the music of unemployment. -- Frank Zappa
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. -- Steve Lacy
Jazz to me is a living music. -- Dexter Gordon
Jazz is the music of the body. -- Anais Nin
I love jazz music and sad music. -- Fred Durst
Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. -- Henry Van Dyke
I also like Western classical music and jazz. -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Jazz music is a language of the emotions. -- Charles Mingus
Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food. -- Molly Ringwald
Jazz will be the classical music of the future. -- Dizzy Gillespie
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. -- Paul Whiteman
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. -- Esperanza Spalding
I like rock music. I like jazz better, though. -- Clarke Peters
I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz. -- Rick Derringer
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. -- Pat Metheny
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. -- Anita Diament
Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz. -- Alan Vega
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. -- Herb Alpert
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music. -- Percy Heath
I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music. -- Mark Ronson
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about. -- Wynton Marsalis
Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music. -- Kenny Garrett
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. -- Sonny Rollins
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! -- Joe Lovano
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. -- Norman Granz
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. -- Branford Marsalis
Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music... -- Kurt Rosenwinkel
To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music. -- David
I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. -- David Amram
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. -- Steve Lacy
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. -- Erik Larson
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. -- Nina Simone
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. -- Kamasi Washington
Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. -- Peter Watts
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. -- Kenny G
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. -- Michelle Obama
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. -- Edgar Winter
I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style. -- Robert Glasper
The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. -- Maynard Ferguson
There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz. -- Herbie Hancock
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. -- Gary Carter
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. -- John Lescroart
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. -- Anthony Braxton
My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz. -- Kieran Hebden
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. -- Toots Thielemans
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. -- Julie Andrews
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. -- Jan Garbarek
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. -- Mahalia Jackson
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. -- Marc Ribot
I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music. -- Herbie Hancock
I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley. -- Bryan Ferry
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. -- Herbie Hancock
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. -- Lee Konitz
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions. -- Johnny Griffin
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz. -- Lee Konitz
I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room. -- Libba Bray
The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that. -- T. S. Monk
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! -- Christian Scott
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. -- Aloe Blacc
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz. -- John Hughes
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. -- Jess Row
Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music. -- Stephen Bruner
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. -- Nina Simone
What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music. -- Simon Helberg
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything -- Marian McPartland
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. -- Pat Metheny
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. -- Neil Young
My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes. -- Matthew Quick
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. -- Norah Jones
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. -- Jimmy Page
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. -- Nigel Kennedy
Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. -- Chris Barber
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. -- Sonny Rollins
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. -- Billy Higgins

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