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Jazz Quotes
"So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it."
39
"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."
Jazz,
30
"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."
28
"Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?"
Jazz,
28
"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."
27
"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple."
25
"I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz."
21
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz,
21
"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz."
20
"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."
19
"It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice."
19
"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
Jazz,
19
"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
Jazz,
18
"Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition."
18
"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."
18
"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."
17
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
Jazz,
17
"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."
Jazz,
16
"Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas."
Jazz,
16
"Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions."
Jazz,
16
"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
15
"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
Jazz,
15
"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."
15
"As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe."
Jazz,
14
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