#jazz

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything. ↗

— Carla Bley

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It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

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I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. ↗

— Fred Durst

#i #i love #jazz #jazz music #love

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz. ↗

— Don Bluth

#bath #because #both #classical #classical music

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world. ↗

— Don Ellis

#compared #earliest #experiments #jazz #latest

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space. ↗

— Donald Miller

#community #donald-miller #inspirational #stories #family

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#classical music #enjoy #i #jazz #listen