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Tag Name "Jazz" (1312)

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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
John Coltrane
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There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.
Van Morrison
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
Garrett Hedlund
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
Louis Armstrong
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Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.
Jon Lord
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Man, there's no boundary line to art!
Charlie Parker
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Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
Aloe Blacc
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As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.
Jillian Hervey
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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
J. J. Johnson
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From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as something NEW and like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen. But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.
Allen Ginsberg
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Wayne Shorter
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To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
Wayne Shorter
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Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'
Wayne Shorter
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I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.
Sun Ra
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The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks up the solo and plays it back at 'em, it was the imitation of the human dialogue. It was how people spoke, through music.
Wendell Pierce
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
Herbie Hancock
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The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.
Van Morrison
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Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.
Wes Montgomery
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I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.
Wes Montgomery
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The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way.
Wesley Willis
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I learn something new every day.
Stan Getz
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I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
Erik Larson
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Always pack your uniform on top.
Freddie Green
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Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
Alexis Korner
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