#jazz music

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

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I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. ↗

— Fred Durst

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Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. ↗

— Maynard Ferguson

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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

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I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician. ↗

— Charlie Haden

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Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! ↗

— Toots Thielemans

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Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. ↗

— Tony Wilson

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