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Jazz Quotes

I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.

Music People Me Voice Hill Jazz

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

Blues Jazz Classic Players Lot Sang

I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.

Good Great Dress Me Museum Jazz

I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.

Music Travel Blue Find Go Jazz

Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.

Music Art Transformation Want Jazz

That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.

Queen Control Song Loved Blues Jazz

To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go off to college only to abandon their beliefs in order to fit in or be accepted.

Marshall Allman

Blue People College Me Story Jazz

There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.

Jazz Rock Will Band First Starting

There were so many people after that first 'Colbert Report' interview that were impressed by the synergy we had during the interview. People everywhere we'd go would say, 'You should be the bandleader; it would be great for jazz. It would be great for the music.' But I was completely against it.

Music Great People You Go Jazz

When you find real jazz on the radio dial, it comes in all static-y. It's just like tap dancers. You have to go uptown to find the real hoofers. We only come to midtown if we're called upon.

You Find Go Jazz Real Radio

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Me Black Musicians Jazz Prejudice

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

Guitar Jazz First Master Fender Les

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

Love Jazz Got Who Stepfather

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.

Music Baby Bath Just Because Jazz

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Good Music Man Country Blues Jazz

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

Poetry Surprise You Create Jazz Try

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

Think You Jazz Out Big Deal

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

Live Music Teacher Best You Jazz

My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.

Foundation Musicians Jazz Things

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Writing Jazz Like Taught Learned

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

Style Me Jazz Craft Whatever Really

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

America Jazz Century 20th Century

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

Damien Chazelle

Love History City New Jazz Legends

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

Myself Blues Jazz Call Player

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