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Jazz Quotes

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Olivier Messiaen

Bird Colors Know Jazz Never See

If I wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, I would be a miserable human being serving pancakes at Denny's. I'm also a singer, so maybe I'd be singing at dark jazz clubs in Brooklyn.

Miranda Rae Mayo

Singing Brooklyn Dark Jazz Singer

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

People Me Said Jazz Band First

I like Jaco Pastorius' 'Portrait of Tracy.' He was this bass player who played jazz fusion. He was the dopest bass player who ever lived.

Portrait Jazz Lived Bass Who Fusion

Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor people of color, both hotbeds of cultural innovation: think hip-hop and jazz. Both are waterfront communities that host both industries and residents in close proximity of one another.

Innovation People Color Think Jazz

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

You Three Jazz Two Fine Pushing

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then these really tiny laser highs if I want as well.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

Deep Want Jazz Never Sound Clean

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

Kind Jazz Years Only Were Albums

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

Madeleine Peyroux

Music Jazz Try Always Everything

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Louis Armstrong

You Know Jazz Never Ask

When you're playing jazz, you have to somehow overcome that feeling of being intimidated because your aim is to portray that freedom in what you're playing.

Freedom You Feeling Jazz Aim Being

Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

Appreciate Jazz Listen Like Once

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

America Doing Find Jazz Names Would

My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.

Love Style Singing Party Blues Jazz

George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.

Little Louie Vega

Jazz Different Pop Conquered Many

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

History People Musicians Know Jazz

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

Best Me Growing Up Gift Jazz Silver

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

Style Me Partner Jazz Who Funky

When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.

Music Name Jazz Image Mental Saw

I feel like I'm a torchbearer for jazz, fostering its tradition but its future, too.

Future Feel Tradition Jazz Like Too

I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B.

School Jazz Rock Listen Old School

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

Bike Jazz Band Riding First Drums

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

Music School Me Jazz Arts Aware

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

Kamasi Washington

Music Jazz Like Microscope Telescope

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