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Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. — Robert Greene

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on. — James McBride

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries. — Robert Glasper

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach. — Merle Haggard

Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with. — Paul Horn

We must be as pure as our music. — Albert Ayler

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference. — Georgie Fame

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. — Buddy Guy

I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz. — Ashley Benson

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle. — Herbie Hancock

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it. — Denzel Washington

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. — Gunther Schuller

I barely heard her muffled comment of "Yay," but the sarcastic jazz hands were hard to miss. — Katie McGarry

That's the wonder of jazz, Mary," Johnny explained. "There's no right way and there's no order. — James Runcie

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. — Wynton Marsalis

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality. — John Otto

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you. — Pat Metheny

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years. — Christian McBride

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz. — Talib Kweli

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. — Pat Metheny

I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz phase. — Nick Kroll

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial. — Norah Jones

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. — Norman Granz

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive. — Marla Gibbs

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate. — Paul Newman

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music. — Stephen Bruner

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it. — Louis Armstrong

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon. — Eddie Condon

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. — Charlie Parker

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice. — Stewart Copeland

I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people. — Sun Ra

She was cool -
the whole world
seemed
to spin around her
in smooth jazz. — Atticus Poetry

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker. — Brian Setzer

Jazz is the music of unemployment. — Frank Zappa

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. — Steve Lacy

When we stopped in front of it and turned off the engine, we heard music coming from inside - jazz. It sounded sophisticated and lonely. We — Denis Johnson

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone. — Laura Mvula

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty. — Doc Childre

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. — Maynard Ferguson

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly. — Warren Zevon

Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz. — Slaine