#jaz

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. ↗

— Ginger Baker

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The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. ↗

— Luther Allison

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I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. ↗

— Herb Alpert

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I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. ↗

— David Amram

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There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world. ↗

— Tori Amos

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In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about. ↗

— David Amram

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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. ↗

— Louis Armstrong

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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

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It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. ↗

— David Baker

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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. ↗

— Walter Becker

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