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Jazz Quotes

I'm not a big jazz fan.

I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.

Art Loved Musicians Jazz Him Found

When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. Then the Clash led me to all these other kinds of music: classic rock, Stevie Wonder, world music, and Brazilian music. I got serious about jazz when I was probably about 14 or 15.

Music Me World Wonder Young Jazz

I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.

Love Music Woman Loved Holiday Jazz

We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.

Forward Play Want Jazz Swing Rock

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

Beginning Jazz Singer Been Should

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Esperanza Spalding

Plan Jazz Always Melting Pot Been

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Education Music Soul Jazz Rock

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

Go Jazz Miles Monk Records Could

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

Women Doing Jazz Month September

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

Love Good Singing Say Jazz Any

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

Wynton Marsalis

Democracy Jazz Spirit Integration

I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

Believe Find Jazz Hard Over Whole

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

Ron Cephas Jones

History America Jazz The History Of

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Nature Music Jazz Different Just

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

Love Day Three Jazz Listen Hours

I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.

Rachael MacFarlane

Want True Jazz Never Mean Kid

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Music Style People Play Jazz Listen

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

Good Myself Me Jazz Cut Off

I love classical jazz.

Love Jazz I Love Classical

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

Beauty People Jazz Own Suit

When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.

Music History Me Grow Learn Jazz

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

Country Jazz Over Clubs Performed

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

America Three Jazz Chains Years

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