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“Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.”

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Author:Darryl Pinckney

“[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.”

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Author:Lemmy Kilmister

“Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be coaxed out of them, it has nothing to do with the phases of the moon or even how they feel that day. They go on stage and start playing. Being creative is their job.”

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Author:John Kao

“Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.”

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Author:John Kao

“I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you is not going to be true." He's not saying, "I'm trying to lie to you." But he's kind of saying that you can never say what something really is.”

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Author:Paul Beatty

“There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's - but I used to study with Junior Mance, and he would tell me about Bradley's. It was a very important place for a generation of jazz musicians in New York. It was really all about pianists there.”

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Author:Jose James

“People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a combination of right time, right place and having certain genes or a gimmick or whatever, but it's really not anything more than sugar. It tastes good and goes away fast.”

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Author:Gene Simmons

“Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten or twelve years. Based on some political stuff and other things, I think I'm not the only musician, the only American jazz musician that's not going to Europe quite as much. I think we're seen a little differently in the world, unfortunately, than we were pre-Iraq invasion and things like that.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may want to put a label on it, those who create it think of it just as music, and tend not to classify it.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating manual and do what we were told, but today the world is too complex and fast. Today it's all about real-time innovation and creativity. Individuals may get hired based on their resumes, but they'll get promoted and reach their dreams based on their ability to create. In that context, being a jazz musician was the best MBA I could have ever received.”

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Author:Josh Linkner

“I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for a long time. I was training to be a jazz musician for quite a while. I never trained to be a classical composer or player, but I did train to play jazz.”

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Author:Jherek Bischoff

“All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.”

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Author:Patricia Barber

“That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and other times be able to pull it all in and lay it down like a track.”

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Author:Robert Glasper

“Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your music as a way to tap into content. It's related to the way my text-based work still functions as abstraction for me. If I repeat a sentence down a canvas, the text starts to smudge and disappear. It essentially becomes an abstract piece. The meaning of the text is still there.”

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Author:Glenn Ligon

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”

“If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.”

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Author:Buddy Rich

“I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.”

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Author:Carlos Santana

“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”

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Book:Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy

Source: Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy

“Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.”

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Author:Tony Wilson

“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.”

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Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.”

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Author:John Coltrane

“Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.”

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Author:Charlie Parker

“The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."”

“It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”

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Author:Dizzy Gillespie

“Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.”

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Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.”

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Author:John Coltrane

“There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.”

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Book:The Duke Ellington Reader

Source: The Duke Ellington Reader

“I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“Never play anything the same way twice.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.””

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Author:Aaron Copland

“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”

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Author:Ornette Coleman

“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.”

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Author:John Coltrane

“I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.”

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Author:Pete Fountain

“Jazz music is the power of now.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

“If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.”

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Author:Joe Pass

“Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”

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Book:Six marches

Source: Six marches

“Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.”

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Author:Mike Zwerin

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