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

Dave Van Ronk, American Musician

Jazz, Now, Right

"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."

Pat Metheny, American Musician

Jazz, Principles, Worry

"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."

Pat Metheny, American Musician

Jazz,

"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

Jazz, states, United

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

Branford Marsalis, American Musician

Jazz,

"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,

"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz."

Herbie Hancock, American Musician

Jazz, Spirit

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"Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record."

People

"I choose things by how they resonate in my heart."

Heart

"Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning."

Beginning

"The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration."

Woman

"I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s."

First

"When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else."

Music

"My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed."

Music

"You know, I'm pretty much an open book."

Open

"I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge."

Challenge

"I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life."

Life