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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially...

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

Quote by Evan Parker about music, inspiration, americans

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing...

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

Quote by Lester Bangs about hate

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writing, time

I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way...

I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an improvisation on a theme.

Quote by Andy Garcia about film, work

My writing's got better, I feel more confident and more grounded with it and there's a transition in the music. It's got an eclectic flavour-there's a jazz theme, a couple of show tunes.

Quote by Geri Halliwell about couple, writing, music

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although...

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about origin, music

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't...

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about real estate, things

What they call jazz here is not the real stuff. Compared...

What they call jazz here is not the real stuff. Compared to the music I heard in New Orleans, it sounds like tin pans.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about music, real estate

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

Quote by Billy Joel about rocks, americans, country, world

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...

Quote by Evan Parker about air, education, force, police, day, people

And yet the people of my generation who loved jazz were starved of it in terms of actually seeing our heroes until the exchange system started in 1956.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about people

I don't quite recall how I first got interested in...

I don't quite recall how I first got interested in traditional jazz.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about music

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about music

It was with Ronnie's band that I first met my old mate Benny Green. He was reading a blue cover Penguin, a classic, the first jazz musician I ever saw reading such a volume.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about opinion, old, olderness

It's a funny thing, but when people talk about jazz piano nowadays they seem to overlook Earl, and I don't know why, because he had perfect musical taste.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about humor, perfection, things, people

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being...

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

Quote by Andy Partridge about music, rocks, being

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician, things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music, garden, memory, things, night, old, olderness

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