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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. — Mahalia Jackson

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

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz. — Oscar Peterson

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. — Luther Allison

I knew all too well the damage of scarlet ink smeared across page-after-page ... — Jazz Feylynn

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed

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

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way. — Paula Cole

They call it music, but it's just this side of magic. — Harold Jones

That's what I thought I was. A stalker of stalkers. A predator preying on predators. — Barry Lyga

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. — Madeleine Peyroux

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. — Alvin Lee

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. — Martin Scorsese

There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. " — Art Blakey

Maybe it's a green thing or a wolf thing or a short-circuit thing. I don't seem to know anything. — Jazz Feylynn

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility. — Esperanza Spalding

Painting, I think it's like jazz. — Brian Eno

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap. — Emily VanCamp

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. — Pat Metheny

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid. — Andy Partridge

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. — Pat Metheny

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

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing. — Wynton Marsalis

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. — Gerry Mulligan

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people. — Dexter Gordon

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

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. — Billy Higgins

I don't know a thing about jazz."
"That's okay." He pulled me toward the door and opened it. "You know music. Jazz will explain itself. — Jessica Martinez

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. — Herbie Hancock

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician. — Buddy Rich

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there. — Michael S. Harper

I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play. — Louis Armstrong

Where's jazz going? I don't know. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens. — Thelonious Monk

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

The jazz musician's function is to feel, — Lennie Tristano

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back. — Art Blakey

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me. — Ted Rall

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture. — Tom Harrell

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing. — Chris Carter

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy. — Eddie Condon

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine. — Kenny G

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet. — David Bowie

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. — Lou Reed

Determined to enshroud his enchantment. — Jazz Feylynn

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that. — Jan Garbarek

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake. — Dylan Moran

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. — Toots Thielemans

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it. — Kenny G

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. — Bix Beiderbecke

The French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift. — Alice B. Toklas

Every bloody mark had assassinated my writing along the way. — Jazz Feylynn

It's either hip or it ain't. — Lee Morgan

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction. — Herb Alpert

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to. — Ritchie Blackmore

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. — Ken Burns

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread
without it, it's flat. — Carmen McRae

It's always fun to talk about jazz. — Clint Eastwood

Sometimes when I run, I listen to jazz, but usually it's rock, since its beat is the best accompaniment to the rhythm of running. — Haruki Murakami

There's no such thing as a wrong note. — Art Tatum

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz. — Jon Secada

I listen to jazz and gospel ... yeah that's basically what I listen to. — Anwar Robinson

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from. — Evan Parker

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. — Frank Black

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own. — Tama Janowitz

In mid-stroke of word and paper fusion — Jazz Feylynn

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding. — Sofia Vassilieva

Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence. — Bill Milkowski

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity. — Wynton Marsalis

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise. — Meg Ryan

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it. — Wynton Marsalis

A gripper of a read ... Silence revives the cliff's-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory's death. — Bruce Barcott

Maybe that's why the Westmores never allowed any pets. Hard to keep them off the menu. — Jazz Feylynn

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country. — Al Jourgensen

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records. — Syd Barrett

This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it. — Jazz Feylynn

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

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

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

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

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

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it. — Esperanza Spalding

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music. — Tinashe

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky. — Patrick Stump

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it. — Fats Waller

A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit. — Jazz Feylynn

The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one's head. — Pat R

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't. — Tony Bennett

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. — Wynton Marsalis

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

I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz' ... it's an adventure. — Maynard Ferguson

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for. — Noel Fielding

I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation. — George Shearing

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment. — Robert Altman

The static's nice. I could do without the screeching."
"Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. — Peter Watts

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence ... — Pat Metheny

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. — Pat Metheny

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what's regular and what's wild. That has always appealed to me. — Robert Pinsky