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I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it’s very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night  (Jazz Quotes) I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I’ve learned my lessons well. I’d like to keep the flame burning  (Jazz Quotes) I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity  (Jazz Quotes) I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That’s what I apply to everything  (Jazz Quotes) It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself  (Jazz Quotes) Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music  (Jazz Quotes) One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing  (Jazz Quotes) I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life  (Jazz Quotes) My music isn’t anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock’n’roll, and it has an urgency to it  (Jazz Quotes) At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music  (Jazz Quotes) I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music  (Jazz Quotes) I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I’ve been playing jazz ever since  (Jazz Quotes) I’m a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can’t really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that’s religious  (Jazz Quotes) Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it’s our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are  (Jazz Quotes) Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them  (Jazz Quotes) I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living  (Jazz Quotes) One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz  (Jazz Quotes) The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn’t supposed to be in!  (Jazz Quotes) Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days  (Jazz Quotes) Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives  (Jazz Quotes) He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery  (Jazz Quotes) The grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy  (Jazz Quotes) Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free  (Jazz Quotes) Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners  (Jazz Quotes) Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts  (Jazz Quotes) Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz  (Jazz Quotes) Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music  (Jazz Quotes) A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He’s above all a human being... the true artform is being a human being  (Jazz Quotes) Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century  (Jazz Quotes) When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony... and at the same time of hope and freedom  (Jazz Quotes)
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