Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, y...
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're ...
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
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.
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.
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz m...
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whateve...
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
