#jaz

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

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I was exposed to jazz early on. ↗

— Mark White

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The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#always #blues #down #fit #jazz

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

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And I used to listen to a lot of jazz. ↗

— Debra Wilson

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The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#elements #exactly #good #hip-hop #i

Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue. ↗

— Mark White

#issue #jazz #real #tone #tough

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. ↗

— Neil Young

#jazz #me #music #rock #roll

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

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