#jazz

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing. ↗

— Lynn Swann

#ballet #body #control #dance #deal

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. ↗

— Ice T

#going #i #jazz #miles #miles davis

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#also #completely #did #fiction #first

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#got #i #jazz #know #metal

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#been #else #experimental #few #here

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. ↗

— Louis Armstrong

#important #jazz #jazz musician #memory #musician

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval. ↗

— Jeff Beck

#disapproval #england #i #i can #jazz

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out. ↗

— Lester Bowie

#because #consistently #does #jazz #lie

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#good #jazz #jazz musician #know #making

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly. ↗

— Dave Holland

#along #carried #content #emotional #fact