Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

B. B. King

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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Zach Anner

Music Love Profound Jazz

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Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Willie Nelson

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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Ben Okri

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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Cyndi Lauper

Blues Dance Jazz Learned

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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

Abstract Been European Expressionism

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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Nina Simone

Jazz Black Classical

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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

Nina Simone

Jazz Music Life Being

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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Haruki Murakami

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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Neil Young

Anything Jazz Me Music

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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

Jack Nicholson

Big Blues Delta Easy

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Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

Pete Townshend

Because Being Drummer Ever

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Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

George Gershwin

Jazz Best things Life Friend

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The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Kenny G

Adult Contemporary Contemporary Music Jazz

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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

Kenny G

Charlie Charlie Parker Create Fine

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I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Kenny G

Decide Everybody Fine I Think

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Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Kenny G

College Coltrane Influence Jazz

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I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

Kenny G

Classical Classical Music Jazz Listen

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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Ray Charles

Approach Blues Country Country

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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Leonard Cohen

Group Jazz Liked Lyrics

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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Louis Armstrong

Ask Jazz Know Never

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

Louis Armstrong

Gone Important Jazz Jazz Musician

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Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

Louis Armstrong

Become Born Ear Early

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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

Lou Reed

Chords Jazz More Than

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I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

James McBride

Books Earn Horse How

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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Duke Ellington

Jazz Good barometer Freedom

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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

B. B. King

I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Zach Anner

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Willie Nelson

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Ben Okri

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Cyndi Lauper

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

Nina Simone

Nina Simone

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Haruki Murakami

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Neil Young

Jack Nicholson

Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

Pete Townshend

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

George Gershwin

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Kenny G

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

Kenny G

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Kenny G

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Kenny G

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

Kenny G

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Ray Charles

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Leonard Cohen

Louis Armstrong

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

Louis Armstrong

Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

Louis Armstrong

Lou Reed

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

James McBride

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Duke Ellington

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