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“I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.”

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Author:Nicole Beharie

“Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.”

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Author:Roberta Flack

“I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.”

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Author:Samantha Barks

“Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.”

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Author:Aloe Blacc

“All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.”

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Author:Andrew Bird

“My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.”

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Author:Anthony Braxton

“I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.”

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Author:Carla Bley

“I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.”

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Author:Donovan Bailey

“There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.”

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Author:Gary Burton

“I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.”

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Author:Ginger Baker

“If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.”

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Author:Ginger Baker

“I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.”

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Author:Laura Benanti

“My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.”

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Author:Casey Abrams

“You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.”

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Author:Casey Abrams

“I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.”

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Author:David Amram

“Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.”

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Author:Renee Fleming

“I do find modern jazz quite tricky.”

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Author:Jane Asher

“I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.”

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Author:Gary Carter

“I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.”

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Author:Cathy Freeman

“I love jazz music and sad music.”

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Author:Fred Durst

“I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.”

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Author:Jonathan Frakes

“There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go back and just do it for fun. But I take all other kinds of classes: I take jazz classes, modern classes, and I love doing that instead of going to the gym. The gym is not very much fun.”

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Author:Summer Glau

“The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.”

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Author:Jan Garbarek

“There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.”

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Author:Jan Garbarek

“My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.”

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Author:Mose Allison

“I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.”

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Author:Ashley Benson

“I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.”

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Author:Chadwick Boseman

“I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.”

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Author:Creed Bratton

“I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.”

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Author:Donald Byrd

“If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.”

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Author:Don Ellis

“I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.”

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Author:Rick Derringer

“I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.”

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Author:Elle Fanning

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