#jazz music

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music. ↗

— Jan Hammer

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If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. ↗

— Ginger Baker

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It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. ↗

— David Baker

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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability. ↗

— Mike Stoller

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You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician. ↗

— Pete Fountain

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A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

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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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