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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | top
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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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The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time. Mose Allison | top
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I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. David Amram | top
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Louis Armstrong | 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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And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even. Elvis Costello | top
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I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived. Kevin Eubanks | top
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I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. John Goodman | top
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I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan. Norman Granz | top
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I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician. Charlie Haden | top
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This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer. John Hench | top
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In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly. Dave Holland | top
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My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. Tony Iommi | top
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Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz. Lee Konitz | 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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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz. Pat Metheny | top
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I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? Joni Mitchell | top
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If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music. Lee Ritenour | top
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Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing. Sonny Rollins | top
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There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. Sonny Rollins | top
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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz. Dave Van Ronk | 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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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. Paul Whiteman | top
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Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. Cassandra Wilson | top
