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“Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.”

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Author:Georgie Fame

“I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.”

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Author:Martin Freeman

“I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.”

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Author:Renee Fleming

“The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.”

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Author:Kenny G

“I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.”

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Author:Kenny G

“Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.”

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Author:Kenny G

“I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.”

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Author:Chad Hugo

“I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.”

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Author:Charlie Haden

“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.”

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Author:Garrett Hedlund

“Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.”

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Author:George Foreman

“Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.”

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Author:Merle Haggard

“My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.”

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Author:Tony Iommi

“I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.”

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Author:Al Jarreau

“I have a secret love of jazz.”

Secret Jazz Secret Love

Author:Carly Rae Jepsen

“If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.”

Ifs Player Jazz

Author:Keith Jarrett

“I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.”

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Author:Norah Jones

“I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.”

Real Jazz Albums Someday

Author:Norah Jones

“When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.”

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Author:Tom Jones

“Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.”

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Author:Baz Luhrmann

“I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.”

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Author:Baz Luhrmann