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The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Norman Granz

History

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.

Mike Gordon

Jazz

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

Dexter Gordon

Influence

Jazz

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

John Goodman

Jazz

Now

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Greg Ginn

Jazz

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.

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

Stan Getz

Death

Jazz

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

George Gershwin

Life

Jazz

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

Jan Garbarek

Jazz

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Jan Garbarek

Jazz