- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz Quotes
Coming to jazz early, late, or not much at all.
This set is candidly mixed on jazz - one voice regrets missing it young and finding it intimidating later, another admits to just not being a big fan. See Blues quotes for a closely related genre.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then these really tiny laser highs if I want as well.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a secret love of jazz.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020