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- Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and…
- The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
- As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process…
- New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional…
- Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
- Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good…
- Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose…
- One thing about excellence, it&Mac226;s an exclusive club. And it&Mac226;s only for those who really want to pay dues to the s--. My daddy told…
- The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.
- Don't bullshit' just play.
- Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.
- This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
- Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.
- The bandstand is a sacred place.
- The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
- Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
- But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value,…
- Jazz is democracy in music.
- There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
- When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each…
- The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation…
- Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark…
- 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…
- People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy…
- Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get…
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- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker
- And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned… — Steven Adler