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Jazz Quotes

I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.

Love Me Jazz Sound Opera Makes

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

Worry Too Much Jazz Principles Much

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

Young Jazz Kid Always Ability Taste

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

Jazz Editing Improvisation Just

I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

Freedom Myself Team Chaos Play Jazz

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

You Back Know Jazz Others Own

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

Music City Philadelphia Serious Jazz

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

Music You Want Kind Jazz Whatever

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

Music Power You Jazz Rock Reflect

By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

Love Time Jazz Rock Pop Approach

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

People Jazz Sales Point Low Off

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

Down Jazz Matter Because Fact Put

I like jazz, and Martin Taylor and his band have it all, including a wonderful saxophonist and very fine accordionist, so you get a rather unusual range of sound.

Tim Pigott-Smith

You Jazz Band Sound Wonderful Get

In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'

Name News Jazz Drummer Because

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.

Time Soul Think Doing Done Jazz

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

Music School High School Jazz Way

I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.

Jazz Things Raw Much Preferred

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

Jazz Did Uplifted

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

Music Soul Me Say Kind Jazz

Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.

Done Jazz Stuff Other Framework

Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.

Billy Dee Williams

Life Work My Life Year Jazz Monk

I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.

Love Great Book Thought White Jazz

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

Music Listening Country Jazz Rock

I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.

Music Soul Country Blues Jazz Made

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