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- 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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the invention and freeness within a structure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting, I think it's like jazz.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a jazz singer.
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- Nov 07, 2020