#jazz

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer. ↗

— Greg Ginn

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What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

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When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find. ↗

— Norman Granz

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One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

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Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor. ↗

— Coleman Hawkins

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Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music. ↗

— Percy Heath

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I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era. ↗

— Bob Iger

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My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. ↗

— Tony Iommi

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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette. ↗

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions. ↗

— J. J. Johnson

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