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There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.
I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.
Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.
There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too.
There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!
If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.
If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
Everything that I'm doing, it's like a future jazz, future trap house movement.
Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.
I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.
You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.
I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.
Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.
I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel.
Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.
Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.
My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.
If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.
Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.