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The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.
I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.
Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.
I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
Jazz is a fighter. The word 'jazz' means to me, 'I dare you. Let's jump into the unknown!'
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
I like jazz but actually I didn't love it enough to study it for four years. It was boring.
I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.
Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.
Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.
Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.
I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.
I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.
When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.
[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.