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Jazz Quotes
"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
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"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,
47
"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."
47
"As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe."
Jazz,
45
"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."
Jazz,
45
"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
Jazz,
45
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
Jazz,
45
"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."
43
"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."
42
"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."
Jazz,
42
"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."
42
"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
41
"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,
40
"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
Jazz,
40
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
39
"If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz."
39
"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
38
"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
Jazz,
38
"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."
37
"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."
37
"I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff."
36
"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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