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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
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
They call it music, but it's just this side of magic.
— Harold Jones
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
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
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
Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.
— Tom Harrell
I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.
— Kenny G
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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
— Lou Reed
Determined to enshroud his enchantment.
— Jazz Feylynn
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
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 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
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 Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
— Frank Black
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
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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
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
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
— Eddie Condon
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
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
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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
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
