#jazz

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. ↗

— Anita Diament

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Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. ↗

— Marc Ribot

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If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician. ↗

— Buddy Rich

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Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty. ↗

— Max Roach

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I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what? ↗

— David Sanborn

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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do. ↗

— Carlos Santana

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