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Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.
You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!
As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.
I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.
We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.
When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.
He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.
I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.
I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.
I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.
Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.
I teach jazz dancing and I can be a guest teacher whenever I want.
The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.
Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.
I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.
I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.
The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.
Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.
You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.
Dianne Reeves, a famous jazz singer, would be my biggest influence.
Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.