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Every time you make creative, interactive, and harmonious jazz with your Redeemer, whether in your home, friendships, community, church, or at work, while staying inside of his parameters, you are expanding what you touch to the size of God's kingdom. ~ Paul David Tripp
Jazz quotes by Paul David Tripp
Whenever you need to win a situation - talk about jazz, Johanna. It confuses people. ~ Caitlin Moran
Jazz quotes by Caitlin Moran
I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks. ~ Artie Shaw
Jazz quotes by Artie Shaw
Yeah, equal pay for equal work and our bodies ourselves and Gloria Steinem and all that jazz ... but in that dusty dark little corner of every woman's heart where we keep our maps of Tierra del Fuego lives the hunger to fetch a powerful man his slippers on her hands and knees. ~ Tiffany Reisz
Jazz quotes by Tiffany Reisz
Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music. ~ Terry Teachout
Jazz quotes by Terry Teachout
He watched God flip through a few records before pulling one. He slid the vinyl out as carefully as Day would before placing it on the turntable. Soon Day's room was filled with the soft sounds of George Howard's Midnight Moods. It was a smooth, sexy jazz album; definitely one for making love to. Day's ~ A.E. Via
Jazz quotes by A.E. Via
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz. ~ Robert Glasper
Jazz quotes by Robert Glasper
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations. ~ Anais Nin
Jazz quotes by Anais Nin
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound. ~ Joy Harjo
Jazz quotes by Joy Harjo
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me. ~ Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz quotes by Jelly Roll Morton
inquiries. You will feel it in the music and cherish it as the most magical part of the jazz idiom. If you don't, you can always leave the jazz club and check out a rock or pop covers band. That's perfect entertainment for people who want to live in the realm of perfect replication. Jazz, in ~ Ted Gioia
Jazz quotes by Ted Gioia
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. ~ Rita Coolidge
Jazz quotes by Rita Coolidge
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. ~ Stan Getz
Jazz quotes by Stan Getz
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action. ~ Greg Thomas
Jazz quotes by Greg Thomas
I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself. ~ Sun Ra
Jazz quotes by Sun Ra
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. ~ Branford Marsalis
Jazz quotes by Branford Marsalis
In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen. ~ Chet Baker
Jazz quotes by Chet Baker
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. ~ Toots Thielemans
Jazz quotes by Toots Thielemans
Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great. ~ Aretha Franklin
Jazz quotes by Aretha Franklin
I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki. ~ Eric Hernandez
Jazz quotes by Eric Hernandez
They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back. ~ Art Blakey
Jazz quotes by Art Blakey
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive. ~ Marla Gibbs
Jazz quotes by Marla Gibbs
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it. ~ Thelonious Monk
Jazz quotes by Thelonious Monk
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. ~ Pat Metheny
Jazz quotes by Pat Metheny
Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake. ~ Dylan Moran
Jazz quotes by Dylan Moran
Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance ~ Frank Herbert
Jazz quotes by Frank Herbert
I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice. ~ Cassandra Wilson
Jazz quotes by Cassandra Wilson
Now for me, music is indeed a spiritual experience. It may be hypnotizing or violently stimulating. I listen to and appreciate all kinds of music, from folk, to jazz, to classical, to hard core rock. ~ Robert M. Price
Jazz quotes by Robert M. Price
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops. ~ Doc Severinsen
Jazz quotes by Doc Severinsen
Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. ~ Jim Coleman
Jazz quotes by Jim Coleman
But there was a sense of something tipping out of balance. The times seemed out of joint. There was too much decadence. Too much intensity. Too much change. Too much happiness juxtaposed with too much misery. Too much wealth next to too much poverty. The world was becoming faster and louder, and the social systems were becoming as chaotic and fragmented as jazz scores. So there was a craving, in some places, for simplicity, for order, for scapegoats and for bully-boy leaders, for nations to become like religions or cults. It happened every now and then.
It seemed, in the 1930s, that the whole course of humanity was at stake. As it very often does today. Too many people wanted to find an easy answer to complicated questions. It was a dangerous time to be human. To feel or to think or to care. ~ Matt Haig
Jazz quotes by Matt Haig
When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog. ~ George Shearing
Jazz quotes by George Shearing
I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music. ~ Herbie Hancock
Jazz quotes by Herbie Hancock
Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized. ~ Jimmy Heath
Jazz quotes by Jimmy Heath
The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure. ~ Lee Morgan
Jazz quotes by Lee Morgan
We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way. ~ Steve Miller
Jazz quotes by Steve Miller
Emma Forest?" Jazz asks. "His ex is the girl with the big ... ?"
"That's the one," Daisy tells her.
Jazz looks at her chest. I pat her shoulder. "Guys care about personality too."
"Girls like me started that rumor. ~ Cath Crowley
Jazz quotes by Cath Crowley
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
Jazz quotes by Albert Murray
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. ~ Steve Lacy
Jazz quotes by Steve Lacy
I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs ~ Lenny Breau
Jazz quotes by Lenny Breau
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. ~ Nina Simone
Jazz quotes by Nina Simone
I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that. ~ Count Basie
Jazz quotes by Count Basie
As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott. ~ Laura Lippman
Jazz quotes by Laura Lippman
No electricity, fridge, TV or game console. I guess changing from human was enough fun and games for werewolves. ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz quotes by Jazz Feylynn
I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not. ~ Sonny Rollins
Jazz quotes by Sonny Rollins
and were willing to suffer pain if necessary." A young woman in the spring and summer of 1967 was walking toward a door just as that door was springing open. A stage was set for her adulthood that was so accommodatingly extreme - so whimsical, sensual, and urgent - that behavior that in any other era would carry a penalty for the daring was shielded and encouraged. There was safety in numbers for every gorgeous madness; good girls wanting to be bad hadn't had so much cover since the Jazz Age. San Francisco - glowing with psychedelic mystique, the whole city plastered with Fillmore and Avalon posters of tangle-haired goddess girls - was preparing for a convocation (of hapless runaways from provincial suburbs, it would turn out), the Summer of Love, through which the term "flower children" would be coined, while in harsh, emotion-sparking contrast, helicopters were dropping thousands of U.S. boys into the swamps of Vietnam. ~ Sheila Weller
Jazz quotes by Sheila Weller
Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question. ~ Orson Welles
Jazz quotes by Orson Welles
Future and past meet during the present. ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz quotes by Jazz Feylynn
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. ~ Henry Rollins
Jazz quotes by Henry Rollins
Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way. ~ Kate Winslet
Jazz quotes by Kate Winslet
A mistake is the most beautiful thing in the world.
It is the only way you can get to some place you've
never been before. I try to make as many as I can.
Making a mistake is the only way that you can
grow. ~ E.W. Wainwright
Jazz quotes by E.W. Wainwright
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its ... It deals with it! ~ Wynton Marsalis
Jazz quotes by Wynton Marsalis
Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting "jazz" and "scat", as in "scat-singing", to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word. ~ David Lodge
Jazz quotes by David Lodge
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and The New York Tyrant and n+1 will be responsible for keeping it alive. ~ Nick Antosca
Jazz quotes by Nick Antosca
I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside. ~ Clark Terry
Jazz quotes by Clark Terry
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop. ~ Natalie Cole
Jazz quotes by Natalie Cole
I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music. ~ Hamid Drake
Jazz quotes by Hamid Drake
For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level. ~ Scott Henderson
Jazz quotes by Scott Henderson
It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me. ~ Robert Glasper
Jazz quotes by Robert Glasper
My nerves did a jitter dance, ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz quotes by Jazz Feylynn
There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. ~ Stan Getz
Jazz quotes by Stan Getz
The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy! ~ Harold Feinstein
Jazz quotes by Harold Feinstein
Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed. ~ Wynton Marsalis
Jazz quotes by Wynton Marsalis
I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music. ~ Herbie Hancock
Jazz quotes by Herbie Hancock
Miles'd got killed if he hit me. ~ Thelonious Monk
Jazz quotes by Thelonious Monk
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. ~ Pat Metheny
Jazz quotes by Pat Metheny
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. ~ Marc Ribot
Jazz quotes by Marc Ribot
You have to go out and learn jazz by playing. ~ Paul Horn
Jazz quotes by Paul Horn
We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones. ~ Patti Smith
Jazz quotes by Patti Smith
Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. You would never go to a club just to see "Live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. But when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get. ~ Joe Rogan
Jazz quotes by Joe Rogan
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. ~ Ray Charles
Jazz quotes by Ray Charles
Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows ... You name it, he did it! ~ Billy Taylor
Jazz quotes by Billy Taylor
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure. ~ Robert Pinsky
Jazz quotes by Robert Pinsky
I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to orchestral and jazz. For me, the nineties were about Oasis, because I was travelling around Britain when that band exploded onto the music scene. ~ Isla Fisher
Jazz quotes by Isla Fisher
For his part, Jazz knew he was handsome. It had nothing to do with looking in the mirror, which he rarely did. It had everything to do with the way the girls at school looked at him, the way they became satellites when he walked by, their orbits contorted by his own mysterious gravity. If attention could be measured like the Doppler effect, girls would show a massive blue shift in his presence. In the last year or so, he had even remarked the scrutiny of older women - teachers, cashiers at stores, the woman who delivered UPS packages to his house. What had once been a maternal flavor in their glances had taken on a lingering, cool sort of appraisal. He could almost hear them thinking, Not yet. But soon.
Despite his upbringing, despite the infamy of his father, they still watched him. Or maybe because of it. Maybe Howie was right about bad boys. ~ Barry Lyga
Jazz quotes by Barry Lyga
Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear. ~ Oscar Peterson
Jazz quotes by Oscar Peterson
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it. ~ Esperanza Spalding
Jazz quotes by Esperanza Spalding
It started so early, it all runs together. But what made a huge impact on me was when I went to Europe at 15 or 16 years old. All I knew before that was music on the radio and TV. When I went over there I realized there are all different levels of music. There are people who do blues, jazz, classical, working in film, TV and all kinds of places. You might not see them on MTV but there are lots of needs and uses and opportunities for all kinds of music. ~ Chris Thomas King
Jazz quotes by Chris Thomas King
When a fruit salad, a lover, or a jazz trio is just too imperfect for our tastes, we stop eating, kissing, and listening. But the law of large numbers suggests that when a measurement is too imperfect for our tastes, we should not stop measuring. Quite the opposite - we should measure again and again until niggling imperfections yield to the onslaught of data. ~ Daniel M. Gilbert
Jazz quotes by Daniel M. Gilbert
Ed looks at me like he wishes I'd disappear and if I had the choice I'd grant that wish; I'd turn into smoke and blow away. I want to sit on the other side of the table from him so he doesn't think I'm interested, but there's no room on the other side so I sit as far away from him as I can and try to have an out-of-body experience. This couldn't get more awkward if we all tried.
"How about we get some air?" Leo asks Jazz, and they walk outside. Daisy follows them and Dylan follows her. Okay, it could get more awkward if we all tried. ~ Cath Crowley
Jazz quotes by Cath Crowley
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll. ~ Jim Sullivan
Jazz quotes by Jim Sullivan
We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a church. It was just shitty fluorescent lights and a small stage piano, but this band tore it up. ~ Penn Dayton Badgley
Jazz quotes by Penn Dayton Badgley
The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey,
created on paper canvas that brought the story to life. ~ Jazz Feylynn
Jazz quotes by Jazz Feylynn
I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something. ~ Billy Crystal
Jazz quotes by Billy Crystal
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. ~ Olivier Messiaen
Jazz quotes by Olivier Messiaen
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Jazz quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist. ~ Kamasi Washington
Jazz quotes by Kamasi Washington
Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head. ~ Andy Cohen
Jazz quotes by Andy Cohen
Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz. ~ Paul Desmond
Jazz quotes by Paul Desmond
English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was the music from the streets. ~ Yann Martel
Jazz quotes by Yann Martel
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. ~ Gary Lucas
Jazz quotes by Gary Lucas
And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into. ~ Dave Brubeck
Jazz quotes by Dave Brubeck
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. ~ Sonny Rollins
Jazz quotes by Sonny Rollins
Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place ... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts. ~ Norman Granz
Jazz quotes by Norman Granz
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change. ~ Warren G. Bennis
Jazz quotes by Warren G. Bennis
What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises. ~ Steve Wynn
Jazz quotes by Steve Wynn
I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on, and it must live and breathe, and continue to grow, and continue to change, and continue to mesh with other music - all that kind of stuff. Jazz can be on the playground too, you know. ~ Robert Glasper
Jazz quotes by Robert Glasper
I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music. ~ Laura Mvula
Jazz quotes by Laura Mvula
There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming. ~ Neil Peart
Jazz quotes by Neil Peart
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. ~ Bill Griffith
Jazz quotes by Bill Griffith
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