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Jazz Quotes

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Music Jazz Rat Latino Everything

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Comedy Jazz Band Playing Like Felt

I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.

Jazz First Him Boundaries See Own

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

Love Cats Jazz Why Top Him

My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

Kamasi Washington

Jazz Really Archie John Dad

I feel like Europe is way more advanced. They're way more open to the definition of jazz. More cool. They're like, 'You want to do that? Awesome. You want to work with a rapper? Awesome.' They're not, 'Aah, it's not real jazz.'

Work Cool Feel You Want Jazz

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

Thelonious Monk

Play Jazz Everybody Countries Tries

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

Soul Play Jazz Hip-Hop Try Box

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Personality Jazz Swing Invention Far

The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.

City Think New Jazz Spirit Reason

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

Jonathan Frakes

Baseball American Literature Jazz

No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle.

People Listening Start Battle Jazz

Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.

Music Me Listening Jazz Artists How

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

Mark Pellegrino

Jazz Over Everything Like Spectrum

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

Music Jazz Rock Hard Big Guy

The beauty of jazz is that it can accommodate all styles. You can take jazz and put rock in it, and it's still jazz.

Beauty You Jazz Rock Take Still

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

Good Me Think Enjoy Jazz I Think

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

Technology Think Filmmaking Jazz

I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz' category. I got Benny Goodman records and Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, and that kind of stuff. I really was not a jazz guy at all, but I knew some of those names.

Kind Jazz Reason Names Club Guy

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

Musicians Young Jazz Old Up Guys

Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

Cool Weather Warm Someone Fall Jazz

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Good People Think Admit Kind Jazz

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Blues Jazz Exhausted Got After

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

College Listening Influence Jazz

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