#jazz

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. ↗

— Nina Simone

#classical #classical music #dirt #i #jazz

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#bill #heart #jazz #kit #me

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#endure #feet #hear #instead #jazz

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#jazz singer #mother #performs #she #singer

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. ↗

— Andy Summers

#avoid #fusion #generic #i #jazz

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it. ↗

— Norman Granz

#apart #art #art form #attached #form

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan. ↗

— Norman Granz

#doing #fan #i #i am #jazz

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles. ↗

— Stan Getz

#camera #death #get #jazz #rehearse

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#even #felt #help #jazz #likable

I'm not a jazz singer. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#jazz #jazz singer #singer