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My music is jazz. -- Yusef Lateef
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. -- Steve Lacy
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. -- Wynton Marsalis
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. -- Francoise Sagan
I also like Western classical music and jazz. -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. -- Paul Whiteman
I like rock music. I like jazz better, though. -- Clarke Peters
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. -- Jelly Roll Morton
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music. -- Jan Hammer
I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz. -- Rick Derringer
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. -- Anita Diament
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. -- Ginger Baker
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. -- Fred Durst
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. -- Nina Simone
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. -- Marc Ribot
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. -- Billy Higgins
I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz. -- Eric Burdon
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
Jazz is America's classical music. -- Billy Taylor
Jazz is not background music. -- Horace Silver
Jazz is democracy in music. -- Wynton Marsalis
Jazz is the music of unemployment. -- Frank Zappa
Jazz music is the power of now. -- Wynton Marsalis
I love jazz music and sad music. -- Fred Durst
Jazz is the music of the body. -- Anais Nin
Jazz to me is a living music. -- Dexter Gordon
Jazz music is a language of the emotions. -- Charles Mingus
Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food. -- Molly Ringwald
Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. -- Henry Van Dyke
Jazz will be the classical music of the future. -- Dizzy Gillespie
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. -- Esperanza Spalding
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. -- Pat Metheny
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
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. -- Sonny Rollins
Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music. -- Kenny Garrett
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
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. -- Norman Granz
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! -- Joe Lovano
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. -- Maynard Ferguson
To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music. -- David
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. -- Erik Larson
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. -- Branford Marsalis
I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. -- David Amram
Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music... -- Kurt Rosenwinkel
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. -- Steve Lacy
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
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. -- Kenny G
Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. -- Peter Watts
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. -- Kamasi Washington
There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz. -- Herbie Hancock
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. -- Sonny Rollins
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. -- Gary Carter
I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style. -- Robert Glasper
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. -- John Lescroart
The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. -- Maynard Ferguson
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
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
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. -- Toots Thielemans
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. -- Mahalia Jackson
The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that. -- T. S. Monk
I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley. -- Bryan Ferry
I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music. -- Herbie Hancock
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. -- Herbie Hancock
I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room. -- Libba Bray
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz. -- Lee Konitz
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
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. -- Christina Aguilera
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. -- David Sanborn
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! -- Christian Scott
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. -- Nina Simone
Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music. -- Stephen Bruner
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
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. -- Aloe Blacc
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. -- Jimmy Page
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
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything -- Marian McPartland
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. -- Sonny Rollins
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. -- Ornette Coleman
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. -- Nigel Kennedy
What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music. -- Simon Helberg
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. -- Jasper Fforde
Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. -- Chris Barber
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. -- Norah Jones
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
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on. -- Gerry Mulligan
My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes. -- Matthew Quick
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. -- Yo-Yo Ma
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. -- Alvin Lee
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it. -- Horace Silver
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. -- Miroslav Vitous
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. -- Jelly Roll Morton
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat. -- Rakim
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. -- Cassandra Wilson
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America. -- Renee Fleming
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. -- David Bowie
the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz â?¦ anything that contains the original energy of joy. -- Charles Bukowski
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. -- Nina Simone
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it. -- Esperanza Spalding
So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything. -- B.J. The Chicago Kid
I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well. -- Deepika Padukone
Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili. -- Harry James
In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues. -- Scott Walker
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. -- Andy Summers
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy. -- John Clellon Holmes
Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music. -- Van Morrison
Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through. -- Mary Lou Williams
For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source -- Duke Robillard
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.
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. -- Vera Nazarian

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