“ Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. ”
- B. B. King- Copy
- 949
“ By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with. ”
- Duke Ellington- Copy
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“ Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. ”
- John Philip Sousa- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ You know, it's funny… when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician. ”
- Pete Fountain- Copy
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“ Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I saw someone my age improvising, playing jazz. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ Well, I was becoming more of a jazz snob, in thinking that jazz was a higher kind of music, and that R&B was, yes, for the body and more commercial. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor. ”
- Coleman Hawkins- Copy
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“ If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him. ”
- Wes Montgomery- Copy
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“ When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking about the music that I play called jazz. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ When I sense a more conservative and limiting attitude coming from musicians, than my impression is that they're really moving away from the true spirit of jazz. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ”
- Melvin Maddocks- Copy
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“ Jazz is a music that translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour. ”
- Dave Mustaine- Copy
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“ There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet. ”
- Count Basie- Copy
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“ The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. ”
- Miles Davis- Copy
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“ There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. ”
- Henri Matisse- Copy
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“ Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. ”
- Studs Terkel- Copy
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“ There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth. ”
- Leonard Barnes- Copy
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“ All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. ”
- John Coltrane- Copy
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