Quotes about "jazz"

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Definitions and meanings of word "jazz"

• Noun: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; examples: "that's a lot of wind", "don't give me any of that jazz"

• Noun: a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

• Noun: a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

• Verb: play something in the style of jazz

• Verb: have sexual intercourse with; examples: "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm", "Adam knew Eve", "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

Featured authors with quotes containing word "jazz"

Sonny Rollins
14 quotes about jazz
American Musician
Born Sunday 7 September 1930
Rita Coolidge
11 quotes about jazz
American Musician
Born Monday 1 May 1944
Ken Burns
9 quotes about jazz
American Producer, Director
Born Wednesday 29 July 1953
Branford Marsalis
11 quotes about jazz
American Leader, Musician, Composer
Born Friday 26 August 1960
Norman Granz
11 quotes about jazz
American Musician, Producer
Tuesday 6 August 1918 - Thursday 22 November 2001
Steve Lacy
7 quotes about jazz
American Musician, Composer
Monday 23 July 1934 - Friday 4 June 2004
Billy Higgins
6 quotes about jazz
American Musician
Sunday 11 October 1936 - Thursday 3 May 2001
Herbie Hancock
7 quotes about jazz
American Leader, Musician, Architect, Composer
Born Friday 12 April 1940
Etta James
3 quotes about jazz
American Musician
Tuesday 25 January 1938 - Friday 20 January 2012
Barbara Januszkiewicz
5 quotes about jazz
American Artist
Born Wednesday 23 February 1955
Mose Allison
5 quotes about jazz
American Musician
Friday 11 November 1927 - Tuesday 15 November 2016
Norah Jones
5 quotes about jazz
American Writer, Actress, Musician, Songwriter
Born Friday 30 March 1979

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

Tom Verlaine

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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

Tom Verlaine

Words: made, film, about, jazz, tries, look, through, see, tells, people, think, spectacularly, accurate, model, democracy, kind, redemptive, future, possibilities
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I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

Tom Verlaine

Words: considered, jazz, man, rather, blues, player, played, one, sort, another
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I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

Tom Verlaine

Words: love, music, all, kinds, particularly, jazz, extension, America, theres, other, country, world, produced
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So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

Tom Verlaine

Words: went, jazz, performed, clubs, all, over, country
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The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

Tom Verlaine

Words: month, September, women, jazz, doing, duration
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Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

Tom Verlaine

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I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

Tom Verlaine

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I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Tom Verlaine

Words: get, album, played, over, smooth, jazz, stations, play, know, making, soul, connection
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I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

Tom Verlaine

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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.

Tom Verlaine

Words: seems, monstrous, believe, jazz, rhythm, expresses, America, primitive, savage
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Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Tom Verlaine

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Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.

Tom Verlaine

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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

Tom Verlaine

Words: think, jazz, pedigree, radio
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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

Tom Verlaine

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What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Tom Verlaine

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I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

Tom Verlaine

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My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

Tom Verlaine

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I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

Tom Verlaine

Words: fell, love, jazz, years, old, listening, Duke, Ellington, hearing, lot, new, York, radio
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Tom Verlaine

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