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The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.
One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.
My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.
My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.
Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.
If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.
This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.
Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.
I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.
What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.
I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.