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I expect the audience to come up to my level.
You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.
To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.
I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician
Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.
Once you discover that you can, then you must.
I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
Jazz will be the classical music of the future.
Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.
Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.
Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.
Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.
If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.
I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.
I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.
I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.
Music is the greatest communication in the world.
Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.
To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one.
If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.
To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.
If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.
I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
You can't sing about love unless you know about it.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
The music becomes something that is its own entity.