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Jazz Music Quotes (page 2)

John Otto quote: "Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality. John Otto
Ornette Coleman quote: "Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played..."
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. Ornette Coleman
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. Yo-Yo Ma
Steve Lacy quote: "Jazz is people's music, a collectivity."
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. Steve Lacy
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty. Max Roach
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising. Barbara Januszkiewicz
Barbara Januszkiewicz quote: "Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes..."
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. Barbara Januszkiewicz
Chris Barber quote: "Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You..."
Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. Chris Barber
I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. Mike Figgis
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America. Branford Marsalis
People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play. Roy Ayers
If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and all the time, "regardless whether we want to hear it", it roars from loudspeakers, in cars, in restaurants, in elevators, in the streets, in waiting rooms, in gyms, in the earpieces of Walkmans, music rewritten, reorchestrated, abridged, and stretched out, fragments of rock, of jazz, of opera, a flood of everything jumbled together so that we don't know who composed it (music become noise is... Milan Kundera
I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit. Joseph Jarman
Nina Simone quote: "To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt,..."
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

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