Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.
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ROBERT GLASPER I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the ja... LAURA MVULA I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz sho... JESSYE NORMAN Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, ... DEXTER GORDON Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. MARC RIBOT After meeting so many people around town that loved that station, the music and what it offered, I f... TERRY FOX My music is jazz. YUSEF LATEEF The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.” “Are you kidding? That’s the mus... PETER WATTS Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o... ARTURO O'FARRILL Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. PAUL WHITEMAN The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth... MATISYAHU Jazz is the folk music of the machine age PAUL WHITEMAN Jazz is democracy in music. WYNTON MARSALIS Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu... ALOE BLACC When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan... MIGUEL ZENON And my answer is very simple. One day somebody stuck a big tattoo on my arm, or on the festival, and... CLAUDE NOBS Music is the beginning of language to all humans. African Americans' music, in particular, harks bac... BILL FERRIS Her love of the arts was all-inclusive and her patronage went right across the board including jazz,... CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. FRANCOISE SAGAN Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and t... AL JARREAU Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to ... HERBIE HANCOCK Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. MAYNARD FERGUSON Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period... HIROMI UEHARA Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers. GLENN MARTIN Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or ano... BRIA SKONBERG Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. JELLY ROLL MORTON We like this kind of music. Jazz is strictly for stay-at-homes. BUDDY HOLLY Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. DAVID SANBORN I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that ... REGGIE WATTS Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, ... ROBERT GLASPER I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, ... IDINA MENZEL The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain ele... KURT ELLING Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. NINA SIMONE The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a d... PAT METHENY Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz w... LARRY CORYELL That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music. DOMINIC SUCHYTA I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. ANITA DIAMENT There are a lot of young musicians out there performing what they think is Latin jazz but instead is... EDDIE PALMIERI We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would ha... GEORGE BENSON The big tall buildings, the jazz, the traffic, all of it is communicated through the music. It's inc... BOB SCHAER I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena... CECILIA BARTOLI In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron... HERBIE HANCOCK To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b... NINA SIMONE It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the ... HARRY CONNICK, JR. To put on your suit and play jazz music, ... knowing that many people in your audience have never ex... WYNTON MARSALIS To put on your suit and play jazz music, ... knowing that many people in your audience have never ex... WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too muc... CHRIS BARBER My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so... J. D. SOUTHER Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. JAN GARBAREK I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it. Jazz is there and g... KEITH JARRETT Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... TONY BENNETT I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what... JAMIE CULLUM It's our tribute to the Gulf Coast. It will have a wide variety of music including classical, bluegr... GEORGE RIORDAN I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards... ZOOEY DESCHANEL I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicia... SONNY ROLLINS Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new in... NINA SIMONE Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire... DJANGO REINHARDT The idea is very exciting and I'm really looking forward to playing this music as a trio. It's going... AIRTO MOREIRA The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned tha... GEORGE BENSON In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. NORMAN GRANZ I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. RITA COOLIDGE I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. FRED DURST Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European ... THE EDGE Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody tak... TROMBONE SHORTY Jazz music is constantly evolving and women have long been instrumental in shaping the landscape of ... DEREK E. GORDON Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I s... HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz is the art of thinking out loud. BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f... DAMIEN CHAZELLE For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i... PAT METHENY And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. The... DJ JAZZY JEFF That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to ca... CHARLIE HUNTER When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. ... GREG KURSTIN I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pre... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not ... ROY AYERS You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes yo... JOHN ABERCROMBIE In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme... MIKE FIGGIS From Harlem to Queens, New York City has always been at the center of the jazz music evolution. This... CRISTYNE NICHOLAS If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. LOU REED That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It do... DAVE BRUBECK I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk an... BELA FLECK I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing... ETHAN IVERSON As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. EDGAR WINTER It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. HERBIE HANCOCK I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in... DONALD MILLER We have different genres that are complementary to jazz and close to the idiom. This is the 37th out... FRANK MALFITANO Anyone who's a jazz purist doesn't really want to hear 'jazz' attached to our music, and that's some... JASON FREY The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. 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