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Jazz Quotes

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Time Art Blues New Jazz New Orleans

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

Jazz More Started Got Going Like

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

College Song Village Run Jazz Radio

When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop.

Wave Play New Jazz Way Going

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

Music Learn Early Country Jazz Rock

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

Music Jazz Knowing Hearing Without

At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.

Love American Jazz Listen Everything

For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because I feel it's still sacred, like gospel. It's serious music, but it allows room to sing about so much other stuff as well.

Life Music Spiritual Me Feel Jazz

My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore.

Music Great Sometimes Three Jazz He

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

Music Writing Energy Jazz Hip-Hop

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

Rickie Lee Jones

People Me Singing Know Jazz Out

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

Live Easy Blues Jazz Will Big

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

Good You Skills Want Jazz Your

I was singing totally jazz then, but when I heard the Beatles and heard the gospel influence and everything, I just said, 'I can make jazz with R&B.'

Influence Singing I Can Said Jazz

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Jelly Roll Morton

Music Sweet Jazz Rhythm Soft Played

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

Mickey Mouse Jazz Club Mouse Played

I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!' I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us; you hated the idea of jazz.'

Kamasi Washington

Hate People You Say Jazz People Say

We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed on the planet. To play jazz with our genomes and the universe might ultimately be what we're all about.

Technology Universe Reach Play Jazz

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Jazz Rock Opera Babel Requiem

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

Music Me Play Jazz Way Listen

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

Music New Jazz Through Playing Like

I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a suit or something. That's not what it is.

Kamasi Washington

People Think Thinking Jazz Listen

Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.

Sad People Kind True Jazz Hip-Hop

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.

You Argument New Jazz Rock Out

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