#jazz

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. ↗

— Neil Young

#jazz #me #music #rock #roll

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

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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

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

— John Goodman

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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

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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

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