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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.
- Least
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.
- Radio
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- Nov 07, 2020
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.
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- Nov 07, 2020