"One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it."

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"One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it."

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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."

Pat Metheny, American Musician

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"I was exposed to jazz early on."

Mark White, American Musician

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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

John Mayall, British Musician

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"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice."

Lucinda Williams, American Musician

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"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."

Justin Guarini, American Musician

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"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one."

Glenn Miller, American Musician

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"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, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

Count Basie, American Musician

Jazz, Play

"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."

Mose Allison, American Musician

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"I'm not a jazz singer."

Boz Scaggs, American Musician

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"When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong."

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"Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say."

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"How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?"

God

"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."

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"I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better."

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"This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl."

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"Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?"

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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."

"I was exposed to jazz early on."

"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice."

"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."

"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one."

"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, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."

"I'm not a jazz singer."

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"When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong."

"Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say."

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"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."

"I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better."

"This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl."

"Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?"

"The trouble with records is that they're too short."

"When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on."

"The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient."