"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."

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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

Branford Marsalis, American Musician

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"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

Jazz,

"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."

Mike Gordon, American Musician

Jazz,

"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."

Miroslav Vitous, Czechoslovakian Musician

Jazz, Walking

"I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer."

Greg Ginn, American Musician

Jazz,

"I'm not a big jazz fan."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Jazz,

"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, American Musician

Jazz, Musicians, Pretty, Songs

"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."

Paul Desmond, American Musician

Jazz, Writing

"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."

Al Jarreau, American Musician

Jazz, Project, Saying, Songs

"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."

Bobby McFerrin, American Musician

Jazz, Living, Old, School

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"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."

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"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world."

Music

"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."

Family

"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."

Truth

"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."

Country

"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."

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"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."

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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."

"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."

"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."

"I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer."

"I'm not a big jazz fan."

"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."

"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."

"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."

"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."

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"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."

"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world."

"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."

"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."

"I'm a very, very stubborn man."

"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."

"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."

"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."

"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."

"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."