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You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. John Abercrombie | top
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CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad. Roger Ailes | top
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. Louis Armstrong | top
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I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz. Don Bluth | top
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record. Gary Cherone | top
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I've always loved jazz. Rita Coolidge | top
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Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record. Rita Coolidge | top
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He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer. Benny Green | top
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. Bill Griffith | top
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I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it. Justin Guarini | top
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I think I was supposed to play jazz. Herbie Hancock | top
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Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. Alexis Korner | top
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Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. Steve Lacy | top
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My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records. Chuck Mangione | top
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Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. Branford Marsalis | top
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Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them. Brian McKnight | top
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I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. Adrian Mitchell | top
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Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz. Thelonious Monk | top
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It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. Gerry Mulligan | top
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. Francoise Sagan | top
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After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz. Gunther Schuller | top
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I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde. Matthew Shipp | top
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I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. Miroslav Vitous | top
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So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it. Miroslav Vitous | top
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And I used to listen to a lot of jazz. Debra Wilson | top