#jazz

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

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

— Pat Metheny

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

— Pat Metheny

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

— Pat Metheny

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

— Pat Metheny

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I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one. ↗

— Glenn Miller

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I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#complex #emotions #europeans #experiencing #handle

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock. ↗

— Rick Moranis

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Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#chance #commercial #create #different #different way