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You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.
I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.
I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "
All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school.
We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I was younger.
My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.
Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?
As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.
I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted.
Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.
I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.
We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.
I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it.
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.
I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
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.
I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.
I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.
Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.