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Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation and it's connected to everything.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

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