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Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it. -- John Lasseter
I'm not a jazz singer. -- Boz Scaggs
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning. -- Rita Coolidge
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer. -- Jan Hammer
The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer. -- Phoebe Snow
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway. -- Deborah Moggach
I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks. -- Phoebe Snow
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena. -- Boz Scaggs
I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist. -- Cassandra Wilson
I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings. -- Al Jarreau
I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer. -- Eddi Reader
Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed. -- Al Jarreau
I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer! -- Jane Monheit
My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy, -- Etta James
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist. -- Cassandra Wilson
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow. -- Steve Lacy
Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff. -- Gloria Gaynor
I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer. -- Dee Dee Bridgewater
Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she's got a great voice and she's a great songwriter as well -- Jamie Cullum

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