351 Quotes About Jazz



  • Author Paul Shapiro
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    Other people have done jazz with Jewish themes, and other people have done Jewish scales and modes using materials that characterize the sound of Jewish music. I don't think many people have used the liturgy with a jazz band.

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  • Author Tom Smith
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    The thing with Jazz is that it's kind of like a risk takers kind of music.

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  • Author Studs Terkel
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    Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

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  • Author Sarah Vaughan
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    They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.

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