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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.
- Great Achievements
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
- Name
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In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
- Main
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
- Home
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I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn't study formally. I just hung around a lot of musicians.
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I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
- Coleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
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- Nov 07, 2020