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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. Carla Bley | top
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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. Ken Burns | top
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We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz? Ken Burns | top
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What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff. Jimmy Chamberlin | top
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I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. Rita Coolidge | top
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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. Rita Coolidge | top
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I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. Rita Coolidge | top
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Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it. John Corigliano | top
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I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz. Rick Derringer | top
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You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician. Pete Fountain | top
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I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century. Jeff Healey | top
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I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit. Joseph Jarman | 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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One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community. Branford Marsalis | top
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That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. Branford Marsalis | top
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I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet. Bobby McFerrin | top
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. Van Morrison | top
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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. Lou Reed | top
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I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz. Sonny Rollins | top
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There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. Dave Van Ronk | top
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So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy. Billy Sherwood | top
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I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing. Lynn Swann | 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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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea. Eberhard Weber | top
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I was exposed to jazz early on. Mark White | top