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• The jazz chord substitutions in a country song… that was another thing that bent people’s ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It’s not how fast you play. It’s that unique blending of different stuff I’m most proud of.

  Brian Setzer

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• I’m not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

  Branford Marsalis

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• I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it’s so incestuous that it’s starting to kill itself.

  Branford Marsalis

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• Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

  Branford Marsalis

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• That’s kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You’re out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

  Branford Marsalis

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• It’s something that jazz has gotten away from, and it’s unfortunate. Players aren’t physical anymore.

  Branford Marsalis

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• What is jazz? It, It’s almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It’s a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

  Branford Marsalis

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• I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn’t place myself on that footing. I wouldn’t even enter that arena.

  Boz Scaggs

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• I’m not a jazz singer.

  Boz Scaggs

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• Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

  Percy Heath

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• Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

  Paul Whiteman

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• Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

  Paul Whiteman

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• I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

  Black Francis

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• One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don’t know what’s going to happen next. Do you?

  Bix Beiderbecke

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• Jazz needs the help. It’s the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn’t.

  Billy Higgins

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• It’s something that – jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don’t care where you’re from, what you are, what background you come from – there’s something there for you.

  Billy Higgins

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• The French – they like jazz, they’ve been on jazz a long time.

  Billy Higgins

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• The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

  Billy Higgins

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• That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.

  Billy Crystal

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• A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

  Bennie Green

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