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What's interesting about a person without problems?
What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.
Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?
I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Being grown up is boring. Besides, I don't get jazz.
I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!
I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.
Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.
Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past.
Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.
Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs
I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.
I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.
I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.
The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.