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“The way I was singing the songs was jazz”

Way Song Singing Jazz

Author:Van Morrison

“I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.”

People Play Use Would Be Song Fine Instruments Jazz Traditional Offended Charlie Offended You

Author:Kenny G

“In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.”

Ifs Play Song Love Is Responsibility Musician Originals Jazz Statements Interpretation Imitation Classical Music Jazz Music Music Love Jazz Musician

Author:Todd Boyd

“I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.”

Feels Different Song Acting Emotion Responsibility Roles Materials Involved Singing Regard Jazz Listeners

Author:Peggy Lee

“The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.”

Has Beens Purpose Religion Song Culture Goal Cases Rights Magic Groups Jazz Backgrounds Civil Rights Revolutionary Replaced Voodoo

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."”

People Firsts Said Lasts Song Hours Minutes Paid Jazz Driving Rolls Royce Cannonballs

Author:Robert Glasper

“Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.”

Pain Song Jazz Transformed

Book:Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday

Source: Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday

“In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. These songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. So gradually they said well let's call it folk music.”

“My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.”

Song Poet Band Pages Jazz Poetry Is Jazz Band

Book:The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career