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Jazz Quotes

I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

Garrett Hedlund

Power Roads People Long Late Jazz

I do like classical music, and soft rock, and jazz, which I never listened to when I was 15. Now I like it. The older you get, the more tolerant you get, right?

Dmitry Medvedev

Music You Now Jazz Rock Never

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

Love Music Me World Jazz Rock

I already experimented with free jazz in the 1960s and, in my opinion, to play free jazz, you have to be a perfect musician and a perfect human being - and none of us are!

John McLaughlin

Opinion Free You Perfect Play Jazz

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

People Me Create Play Jazz Offended

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

Federico Garcia Lorca

World Better America Jazz Cuba Only

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.

Jazz Sketch Talk Never Involved

I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.

Music Country Jazz Listen Lot

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

Me You Jazz Things Modern Take

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

Great Genius Country Jazz Arts Our

I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.

Me Possibilities You Back True Jazz

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

Musicians Jazz Always Pretty Cult

Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.

Margo Jefferson

Words Language Loved Timing Jazz

Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz audience.

People Jazz Hip-Hop More Audience

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

Opportunity Connection Jazz Miss

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

Damien Chazelle

Life Day My Life Every Day Jazz

I first met Linda Lawrence in March 1965 in the green room of 'Ready Steady Go!,' the British pop TV show. Linda was a friend of one of the co-hosts. She had an art-school vibe, and after a brief conversation, I asked her to dance to a soul record playing. As we jazz danced, I fell in love.

Love Friend Dance Soul Green Jazz

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

Hope Jazz Club Someday Tour

Over the years, the critics have said, 'They never change.' Maybe the little guy's got a new color of school uniform. I always thought, 'Well, what were we going to change into?' A jazz band? A keyboard band?

Change School Color Thought Jazz

You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.

Moment Start You Jazz Will Become

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

Music Great American Blues Jazz Far

I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.

Jazz Old Years Playing Been Pianist

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.

Music Truth American America Jazz

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

Music Teen Early Jazz Years Through

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