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Jazz Quotes

Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.

Me Ignore Jazz My Own Listen Always

None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't make music so you could go check out Sam Cooke.

Music Purpose You Go Jazz Out

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.

Love Time Man Thinking Feel Jazz

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

Damien Chazelle

Jazz First Reason Big Got Fan

Rock and jazz came together in a very powerful way on 'Barabajagal.'

Together Powerful Jazz Rock Way

When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of those things that have jazz elements but also a pop feel.

Feel Jazz Band Things Trio Started

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

Love Music World Jazz Kinds Pop

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

Search Musicians Jazz Greatest Hear

I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

Love Music Power Thought Jazz Rock

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Deborah Moggach

Me Nobody Want Jazz Singer Would

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

George Gershwin

Life Best Life Is A You Jazz Like

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys who could barely play three chords. They dabbled in reggae, punk, rap, jazz. They came to a sound that could only be defined as The Clash. It was impossible to say what it was. I admire them for that.

Love Time Impossible Play Say Jazz

If I want the day off, the boss never says 'No.' I paint away listening to an iTunes jazz station called KCSM Jazz Radio. It's perfect. Good music and no news traffic or celebrities.

Good Music Day Boss Listening Jazz

I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.

Music Style Me Song Jazz Rock

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.

Christopher Plummer

Life Work Music Myself Lonely Jazz

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

People Appreciate Better Boxing Jazz

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

Good Music Song Year White Jazz

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

You Play Jazz Rock Way Reason

Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.

Life Music Great Quality Say Jazz

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

Courtney Barnett

School Start Nobody Jazz Rock Tried

I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the '50s, and I realized that I didn't fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.

Time Looking You Know Jazz Old

Jazz does what it wants to, and so does The Wu.

Jazz Wants Does

I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.

Friends Jazz Got Whom Lot Discuss

I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.

Time King Book You Jazz Way

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