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"If it has more than three chords, it's jazz."

Lou Reed, American Musician

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"If it has more than three chords, it's jazz."

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"I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends."

Walter Becker, American Musician

Jazz, Old, World

"Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something."

Humphrey Lyttelton, British Musician

Jazz, Running, Years

"I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz."

Jon Secada, Cuban Musician

"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."

Chuck Mangione, American Musician

"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

"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"

Bix Beiderbecke, American Musician

"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."

Doc Severinsen, American Musician

Jazz, Musicians, Play, Style

"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."

Oscar Peterson, Canadian Musician

"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple."

Keith Jarrett, American Composer

"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."

John Otto, American Musician

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"When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment."

"In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle."

"Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat."

"The music business doesn't interest me anymore."

"I tried to give up drugs by drinking."

"How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?"

"I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be."

"I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything."

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