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Jazz Music Quotes by Nina Simone
- Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive…
- I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
- I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
- Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she…
More Jazz Music Quotes
- Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. — Christina Aguilera
- The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz. — John Lewis
- Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music. — Maynard Ferguson
- Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. — Esperanza Spalding
- Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. — Henry Van Dyke
- If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz… — Joshua Redman
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- I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or… — Gaspard Ulliel
- And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can… — DJ Jazzy Jeff
- Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. — Pat Metheny
- I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz. — Pat Metheny
- It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you… — Stan Getz