Jazz Quotes
Coming to jazz early, late, or not much at all.
This set is candidly mixed on jazz - one voice regrets missing it young and finding it intimidating later, another admits to just not being a big fan. See Blues quotes for a closely related genre.
If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A Tribe Called Quest could even be a jazz record. 'Bring Da Ruckus,' you gotta call it hip-hop.
I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the piano and I just started learning the guitar.
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I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.
When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it. Not many artists can do that.
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
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Others describe jazz as one thread in an eclectic mix of listening, or simply as the music that defines their work. Browse Love quotes or Like quotes for more personal-taste reflections.
