#jaz

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

#being #had #hard #hard time #here

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

#guess #i #jazz #little #opposed

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

#african #blues #concept #every #false

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#certain point #confrontational #element #iconoclastic #jazz

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#although #always #approach #blues #country

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#felt #freedom #how #i #i think

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz. ↗

— Joe Simon

#after #american #artists #book #carried

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. ↗

— Nina Simone

#classical #classical music #dirt #i #jazz

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#bill #heart #jazz #kit #me

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#endure #feet #hear #instead #jazz