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“There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.”

“I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money. A lot of older jazz guys looked out for me and found me gigs and places to stay.”

Guy Found Figures New York Jazz My Time Apartment Gigs Get Money

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.”

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Book:Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

Source: Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

“The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.”

Two Country Running Beats Jazz Notes New Orleans Groove Bending American Music

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.”

Ifs Knows Art Together Periods Understood Jazz Aspiration Good Times Mutual

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.”

People Individual Teach Jazz About Yourself Swings Improvisation Coordinates Jazz Improvisation

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

Source: Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow

“Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.”

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Author:Brian McKnight

“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.”

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Author:John McLaughlin

“Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.”

Jazz Spontaneity

Author:John McLaughlin

“The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.”

People Music Personality Jazz Suits

Author:Pat Metheny

“Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.”

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Author:Count Basie

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

“As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.”

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Author:Moby

“When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.”

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Author:Moby

“I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.”

Understood Jazz

Author:Van Morrison

“The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.”

Music Goes On Jazz

Author:Van Morrison

“I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.”

Listening Mom Dad Cat Jazz My Dad Radio Albums My Mom Collections

Author:Jason Mraz

“I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.”

Play Hours Stupid Jazz Guitar Size Hats Chests Solo Chevy

Author:Dave Mustaine

“Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.”

Grew Grew Up Jazz Western Bob Swings Very Popular Jazz And Blues

Author:Willie Nelson

“The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.”

Bigs Easy Music Forever Jazz Live Forever Delta Delta Blues

Author:Jack Nicholson

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

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Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.”

Ifs Kind Together Past Strange Jazz Rough Strange Things Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Ben Okri

“In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“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.”

“You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.”

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Author:Charlie Parker

“Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.”

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Author:Charlie Parker

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

“I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.”

Taste Jazz Wide

Author:Terry Pratchett

“In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.”

Age Jazz

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.”

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Book:Managing People is Like Herding Cats

Source: Managing People is Like Herding Cats

“I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.”

Thinking Mean Soul Done Gone Jazz Pops Accepted Right Time Spectrum

Author:Lou Rawls

“One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.”

Two Three Fine Jazz Pushing Chords Pushing It Velvet Underground

Author:Lou Reed

“If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.”

Ifs Three Jazz Chords

Author:Lou Reed

“When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.”

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Author:Lou Reed

“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

“Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.”

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Author:Nicole Richie

“I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.”

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Author:Ginger Rogers

“Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.”

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Author:Irving Berlin

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

Humanity Peace Music Violence Jazz Musical Composer Ubuntu Composing Music

Book:Findings

Source: Findings

“Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.”

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Author:Francoise Sagan

“For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.”

Writing Certain Findings Jazz Rhythm Compare Arbitrary

Author:Francoise Sagan

“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

“Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.”

Art Film Form Century Jazz 20th Century

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.”

Moon Jazz Drummer Roger Keith

Author:Steven Adler

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