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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
Duke Ellington
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Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
David Sanborn
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Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
Dexter Gordon
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Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.
Dianne Reeves
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Jazz stands for freedom.
Dave Brubeck
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.
Barry Lyga
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Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.
Bonnie Raitt
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Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.
Booker Little
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Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.
Norman Granz
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Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.
Marla Gibbs
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Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
Branford Marsalis
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Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
Paul Whiteman
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
Bill Griffith
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Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.
Max De Pree
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Jazz is what I play for a living.
Louis Armstrong
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Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
August Wilson
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Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.
McCoy Tyner
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.
Greg Thomas
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Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.
Ernest Newman
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Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.
Etta James
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