#jaz

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands. ↗

— Michael Giles

#bands #blues #go #jazz #led

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. ↗

— John Goodman

#before #did #getting #i #jazz

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#influence #jazz #lot

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#dreams #expressed #feelings #hopes #jazz

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#am #band #bands #catch #each

Jazz was uplifted by what I did. ↗

— Norman Granz

#i #jazz #uplifted

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough. ↗

— Norman Granz

#area #because #been #economic #enough

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind. ↗

— Norman Granz

#jazz #kind #ones #only #philharmonic

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan. ↗

— Norman Granz

#going #hence #i #jazz #know

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now. ↗

— Norman Granz

#concerned #fans #i #jazz #know