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Jazz is about freedom within discipline.
I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
A beat is a moment in the life a groove.
Blues and jazz are such a root to music.
There are notes between notes, you know.
I would say that jazz is my own language.
Jazz music is a language of the emotions.
What about a blues in W, in the key of W.
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
After two takes you're imitating yourself.
Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.
All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.
Jazz groups have to make a living any way.
I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.
Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.
Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue.
No one is original. Everyone is derivative.
I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.
Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.
You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.
I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.
To keep creating you have to be about change.
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.
Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.
What we hear is the quality of our listening.