I like to shop for old jazz albums.
Ron Cephas Jones
JazzOldLikeAlbumsShop
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
Duke Ellington
DaughterManYouWantKindJazz
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Wynton Marsalis
LifeArtJazzUnderstandWayUs
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Ralph Ellison
StylePlayJazzHimOutOwn
In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.
Rosie Perez
LoveHandsJazzBroadway
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
Dave Van Ronk
MusiciansHelpYouYoungTeachJazz
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
Suzi Quatro
Rock And RollI CanPlayJazzRock
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
Pat Metheny
ThinkViewJazzMoreI Think
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
Martin Scorsese
ArtAmericanJazzFilm20th Century
It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.
David Baker
VoiceJazzRareIndividualEven
Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.
Pete Townshend
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
Oscar Peterson
StyleSpeakJazzPersonalLimit
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.
Michael Parkinson
GreatViewJazzMusician
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
Charlie Haden
PassionArtMusiciansLongJazz
I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.
Serj Tankian
YouKnowJazzRockMy OwnOwn
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
MusicKnowSayJazzOriginGospel
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.
Moby
MusicGuitarPlayJazzRockPunk
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
Charlie Watts
BetterYouPlayJazzNeedSame
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.
Tinashe
LifeMusicMy LifeJazzDancing
I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
Mac DeMarco
MeMomThoughtGuitarNiceJazz
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Lou Reed
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Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
Chad Smith
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As a singer, I've been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don't belong in any category, male or female, pop or jazz. But early on, I saw my suffering as my salvation.
Jimmy Scott
SufferingEarlySayJazzSingerSaw
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
Norman Granz
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