#jazz

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#four #get #going #jazz #just

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#battle #cut #get #having #head

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues. ↗

— John Mayall

#blues #collecting #jazz #learn #more

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#bands #been #bobby #called #high

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#african american #american #classical #classical music #contract

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#common #common ground #degree #develops #find

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#beauty #jazz #malleable #own #people

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#i think #jazz #left-wing #more #represent

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#defined #instruments #jazz #more #much

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds. ↗