Jazz Quotes

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena. Boz Scaggs
Myself Jazz Enter Arena Footing Singer Am Place Jazz Singer Even
I'm a country musician. I know how to play jazz, and I can play rock. But I've had to fight my entire career to get a little respect from people who don't understand where I come from. Brad Paisley
Respect Fight People Country Jazz Musician Entire Entire Career Had Come Know Understand Rock How Get Where Little Who Play Career
I started doing theater at the age of six. I also took tap and jazz lessons. I refused to take ballet, which is one of my biggest regrets to this day. Brandon Uranowitz
Day Age Jazz Took Take Also Ballet Doing Tap Six Refused Biggest Which Theater Regrets Lessons Started
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America. Branford Marsalis
Language Jazz Musical Embodies Spirit Almost Like French Dialect America Asking Actually
The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula. Branford Marsalis
Saying Me You Jazz Record Give Give Me Point Know Go Label Going Want Break Which Formula Average Standards Whole Play Suggest
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid. Branford Marsalis
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Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic. Branford Marsalis
Love Fans Jazz Too Myriad Simplistic Him Always Miles Reasons
I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself. Branford Marsalis
Problems Jazz Think One Of The Problems Itself Starting
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community. Branford Marsalis
Music Me Musicians Jazz Community Music Community Interviews One Of The Things Above More Had Clear Beyond Read Audiences Successful Jazz Musicians Popular Things
People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there's no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is. Bria Skonberg
People Jazz Think Ways No Limit Stereotype Opened New Limit Traditional Hear New Orleans Up Done Where Want Break Stale Groove Many Old-Time Orleans
Jazz is pretty much the freest thing you can be a part of. It's the closest thing I can get to flying. It's fun, interactive. In its own way, it's a sport. Bria Skonberg
You Own Jazz Way Flying Pretty Part Sport Get Closest Closest Thing Interactive Much Fun Thing
My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun. Bria Skonberg
Love School First Band Jazz Older Kids Having Join Joining Like Looked First Love Because Came Were Just So Much Fun Middle Just Because Wanted Middle School Much Jazz Band Fun
What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out! Bria Skonberg
Music Me World Jazz Bit Out Something Take New Like Always Mix Mixture New Orleans Just Explain Spanish Little Little Bit Hard Orleans World Music
Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another. Bria Skonberg
Music Day Jazz Way All-American One-Way Stemmed Another American Pop Pop Music Popular Popular Music
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do. Brian Eno
Free Jazz Musical Constrained Because Equivalent Just Want Which Your Actually Muscles
Painting, I think it's like jazz. Brian Eno
Jazz Painting Think Like
A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist. Brian Eno
Music Future Free Looking Looking Back Past Jazz Back Way East Could New Like Know Make Does Exist Existed New Music African As Far As Which Far Imagine
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan. Brian McKnight
Time You Sit Jazz Bench Way Would About Guys Never Studied Jordan Like Masters Ball Doing Michael Michael Jordan Improvisation Want After Moment Who Now Twice Why Play
I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop. Brian McKnight
Music Jazz Every Type Kinds Something Songs Learned Making Hip-Hop Listen Whether Pop
The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of. Brian Setzer
You People Song Country Jazz Guess Ears Bent Favorites Stuff Blending Most Another Proud How Different Unique Chord Fast Play Thing
One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive. Brian Stokes Mitchell
Time You Song Job Singing Jazz Alive Find Performance Piece Does Fresh Role Artist Done Whether Interesting Interesting Things Spark Keep Keeps Things
People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply strictly with musical theater phrasing. Musical theater tends to be very one and three, and jazz is definitely two and four. Brian Stokes Mitchell
People Three Jazz Strictly Musical Way Musical Theater Definitely Comply Phrase Tends Comment Very Theater Realized Four Two
I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began to seem appealing to me. Brian Stokes Mitchell
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I'm into a lot of different types of music - pretty much everything from blue grass to jazz to dub step to metal to indie experimental and progressive. Britne Oldford
Music Jazz Grass Progressive Types Everything Pretty Indie Step Dub Metal Lot Blue Different Experimental Much Different Types
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world. Bruce Springsteen
Music Great World Band Jazz Back Our Everything Way City Pretty Net Casts Had Primitive Also Rock Go Trumpet Influences Kansas Kansas City Garage Street Wide Players Early
When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop. Buddy DeFranco
Jazz Wave Sold Way Charlie Charlie Parker Parker Point Knew Idea New Bebop Heard New Way Going Play
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