- Geez
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.
- Jazz Musician
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me I grew up watching 'All That Jazz' and 'Cabaret,' and when I was younger 'Mary Poppins',' The Sound Of Music,' and 'Singin' In The Rain.'
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't enjoy jazz guitar in general. I don't enjoy listening to a lot of it. I don't enjoy the tone. In general I've found its role in jazz to be kind of difficult.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.
- Exposed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was exposed to jazz early on.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020