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That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.
Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.
I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.
Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.
I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.
I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.
I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.
I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.
My mum loves jazz, and together we listen to loads of Chet Baker back home.
New Orleans is gumbo. You get so man types of things... jazz, folk, Zydeco.
There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.
I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music.
I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.
Player for player, there’s no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.
I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.
The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.
I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
Intermittently in my concert format, I sing a little jazz, a little scatting.
I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.