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Jazz Quotes

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.

Culture Heritage Alive Jazz See Up

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

Hate Together Musicians Know Jazz

I'm from New Orleans, which is all about direct engagement out in the street with all the parades and Mardi Gras Indians and jazz funerals. I'm trying to take that and put it into my generation, a group that doesn't have enough joy and celebration in their lives.

Joy Generation Enough Trying Jazz

Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step.

Step Know Jazz Will Always Joke

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

Me Jazz More Tool Enhance Use

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

Hate Admit Jazz Playing Like He

For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

Culture Me American Kind Jazz Mark

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

Focus Feel Play Jazz Always Coming

I have a taste for a lot of different kinds of music... everything, from hip-hop to jazz to R&B to top 40 to alternative. There's a lot of good music out there. Every now and then, I'll flip through VH1 and watch the videos... the only thing I really don't listen to is country.

Good Music Country Now Jazz Hip-Hop

I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music. I wanted to be a flamenco guitar player.

John McLaughlin

Music Crazy Guitar Jazz Involved

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

Think Kind Jazz Decide Fine Means

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

Best World End Play Jazz Listen

Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I worked with Clark Terry, that was the beginning of school for me, and Harry Belafonte and Sergio Mendes, they were all my universities.

Beginning School People Me Now Jazz

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

Music History Great Mathematics Jazz

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

Music Style People Think Feel Jazz

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

Music American Physics Person Jazz

It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

Damien Chazelle

Style Army Kind Jazz Entertainment

In any event, I'm proud to wear the badge of jazz vocalist if that's what people want to call me; but at the same time, there are many other things I like to do.

Time People Me Proud Want Jazz

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Music Great Speed Jazz Serve Chops

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

People Musicians Jazz Try Educate

The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.

New York Me Musicians You New Jazz

I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

Damien Chazelle

Music Think You Look Feeling Jazz

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.

Music Listening World Blues Jazz

In South Louisiana, every single thing we do is jazz or zydeco.

Jazz Single Louisiana Every Thing

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