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I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n’ roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don’t think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea’s garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it’s much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: ‘Jacquet,’ he’d say, ‘knock off that tempo.’ A lot of jazz musicians didn’t prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there’s a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) ‘Swing’ is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a ‘swing band’ in music  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn’t interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That’s the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it’s all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they’ll become a great musician.  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) I’ve been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. and not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they’ll become a great musician  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That’s why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can’t read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you’ll keep evolving  (Jazz Musicians Quotes) Now as jazz musicians we’re saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information  (Jazz Musicians Quotes)
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