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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."
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"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."
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"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
Jazz,
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"Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?"
Jazz,
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"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
Jazz,
"As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe."
Jazz,
"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."
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."
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."
Jazz,
"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."
"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."
"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences."
"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."
"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
Jazz,
"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."
"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple."
"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
Jazz,
"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."
"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."
"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz,
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