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" Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you. "
Tom Sizemore
" Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to. "
Mary Halvorson
" After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz. "
Robert Quine
" After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso. "
Keith Gessen
" After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz. "
Gunther Schuller
" A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. "
Benny Green
" A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song. "
Albert Murray
" All forms are complex once you get to a really high level, and jazz and hip-hop are so connected. In hip-hop, you sample, while in jazz, you take Broadway tunes and turn them into something different. They're both forms that repurpose other forms of music. "
Kamasi Washington
" All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz. "
Trombone Shorty
" All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz. "
Terry Teachout
" All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school. "
Donovan
" All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. "
Mose Allison
" All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song. "
Andrew Bird
" A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro. "
Zedd
" A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. "
Pat Metheny
" A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings. "
Kurt Elling
" A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? "
Robert Glasper
" A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary. "
Aaron Diehl
" A lot of young people want to become jazz singers, but there are not more jam sessions like there used to be. I just want to have the opportunity to be able to bring that to some young people. "
Dianne Reeves
" Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough. "
Norman Granz
" And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. "
Travis Barker
" And I used to listen to a lot of jazz. "
Debra Wilson
" 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 do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it. "
DJ Jazzy Jeff
" 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
" Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them. "
Robert Glasper
" Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz audience. "
Robert Glasper
" Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time. "
Joshua Roman
" Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players. "
Buddy DeFranco
" As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also. "
Wynton Marsalis
" As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe. "
Jim Coleman
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