709 Jazz Quotes for You to Enjoy

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk. Trombone Shorty

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It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture. Tucker Carlson

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I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music in the '40s, '50s, '60s. Then I've got all the '80s stuff underground, hip-hop when hip-hop really first started. The '90s stuff. All of the good stuff, because I'm really into music, and it helps me create new songs now. Ty Dolla Sign

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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. Van Morrison

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I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing. Victoria Arlen

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I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time. Ving Rhames

Music Time Jazz Find Most Revolutionary Early

I'm a rock drummer. I couldn't sit down and pretend to be a jazz drummer. Vinnie Paul

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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. Walter Becker

I'm not a big jazz fan. Warren Zevon

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Jazz is a fighter. The word 'jazz' means to me, 'I dare you. Let's jump into the unknown!' Wayne Shorter

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I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place. William Bell

My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have any impact on jazz. Wynton Marsalis

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The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel. Wynton Marsalis

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There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. Wynton Marsalis

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People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly. Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. Wynton Marsalis

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