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I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.
A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.
And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it.
Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.
There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.
I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.
The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.
If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.
The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.
Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.
Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.