Quotes and Sayings About Jazz
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I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
-- Ahmad Jamal -
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
-- Ahmad Jamal -
Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
-- Alan Vega -
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If people don't like my music now, they will.
-- Albert Ayler -
Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.
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Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
-- Alexis De VeauxSource : Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers
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I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.
-- Alexis Korner -
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Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
-- Alexis Korner -
New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
-- Anais Nin -
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Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.
-- Andrew S. Gilbert -
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
-- Andy GarciaSource : "Cuba, Cognac, and Cachao with Andy Garcia". Interview with Allyson Shiffman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.
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Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.
-- Andy Gilbert -
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
-- Anita Diament -
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
-- Anthony Braxton -
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
-- Anthony Braxton -
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Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.
-- Archie Shepp -
You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church
-- Art Blakey -
There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "
-- Art Blakey -
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Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!
-- Art Blakey -
If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.
-- Art BlakeySource : "At the Jazz Corner of the World". Live album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1959.
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I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.
-- Artie Shaw -
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
-- Artie Shaw -
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
-- Barbara Januszkiewicz -
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
-- Barbara Januszkiewicz