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Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone? -- Peter Capaldi
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life. -- Kenneth Rexroth
I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny. -- Tommy Chong
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other. -- David Steinberg
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully. -- Andre Previn
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. -- Tony Wilson
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. -- Colin Greenwood
Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. -- Wynton Marsalis
I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. -- Sonny Rollins
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives. -- Sonny Rollins
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians. -- Chad Smith
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician. -- Charlie Haden
Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea. -- Eberhard Weber
The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life's work. -- Ahmet Ertegun
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
Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel. -- Illinois Jacquet
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days. -- Evan Parker
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques. -- Donald Byrd
I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households. -- George Benson
What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact. -- Sonny Rollins
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist. -- Donald Fagen
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around. -- Pat Metheny
In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world. -- Damien Chazelle
Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the 'Daily Mirror.' They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don't really have any memories of them as a couple. -- Natascha McElhone
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
Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere. -- Mike Zwerin
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. -- Miles Kington
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. -- Gunther Schuller
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool? -- Jon Stewart
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. -- Branford Marsalis
A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? -- Robert Glasper
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. -- Buddy Guy
Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. -- Toots Thielemans
Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type... -- Harry J. Anslinger
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. -- Toots Thielemans
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners. -- Herbie Hancock
[Jazz musicians ] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing. -- Van Morrison
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one. -- Gary Burton
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. -- Ishmael Reed
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. -- Billy Higgins
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal. -- Darryl Pinckney
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down. -- Henry Louis Gates
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world. -- Robert Emerson Coleman
I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe. -- Hiromi
Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests. -- Jeffrey Wright
Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. -- Artie Shaw
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. -- Charlie Haden
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. -- Charlie Haden
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. -- Artie Shaw
What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners. -- Marc Myers
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community. -- Branford Marsalis
Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance. -- John Kao
Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information. -- Paul Bley
Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free. -- George Carlin

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