#jazz

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. ↗

— Bill Griffith

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I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on. ↗

— Van Morrison

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Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well. ↗

— Ahmad Jamal

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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

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Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. ↗

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

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Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. ↗

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

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