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When you're dead, you're done.
Jazz is the music of the body.
I love jazz music and sad music.
We must be as pure as our music.
Jazz is about being in the moment.
To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.
This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.
People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the music.
I was always inundated with music, whether it be my mother's favorites like Fleetwood Mac and Carole King and the Carpenters, or my dad's jazz music.
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music. I wanted to be a flamenco guitar player.
When you are busy with all the live shows and bands, world music and jazz music, it takes time to come back and do a pop album. It needs its own length of time.
Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.
When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan.
If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.
My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.
If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.