"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."

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

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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."

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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

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"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

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

Keith Jarrett, American Composer

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

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"When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends."

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"See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules."

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"When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best."

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"Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me."

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"The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom."

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"While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future."

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"I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music."

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"You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life."

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