I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.
Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.
I design, manufacture, distribute, and sell elevator buttons. I specialize in the fourth floor. And I don’t mean to brag, but I’m such a good salesman that I could sell one of my fourth-floor elevator buttons to the owner of a three-story buildin...
I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
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Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.
I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
