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“Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.”

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Author:David Sanborn

“People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.”

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Author:Roy Ayers

“Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.”

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Author:Phil Woods

“Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.”

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Book:Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture

Source: Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture

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

“My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.”

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Book:The Silver Linings Playbook

Source: The Silver Linings Playbook

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

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Author:Dizzy Gillespie

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace.”

“I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.”

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Author:Roy Ayers

“Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.”

“Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.”

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Author:Bill Milkowski

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

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Author:Kenny G