#jazz

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#chance #commercial #create #different #different way

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. ↗

— Van Morrison

#everything #how #i #jazz #understood

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#american #beginner #clarke #closely #drummers

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#attracted #band #been #i #jazz

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dance #evolutions #gone #instance #instrumentation

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.' ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#air #bar #became #before #center

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#chevy #could #guitar #hat #hour

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#bob #far #grew #his #i

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#blues #delta #easy #forever #jazz

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#everywhere #generation #go #i #jazz