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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. (Quote by - Mike Figgis)
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz? (Quote by - Ken Burns)
Jazz is like a great void, it waits patiently until a brave musician takes control of space and time. (Quote by - Chris Griffin)
Jazz singing is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it. (Quote by - Kurt Elling)
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born. (Quote by - Benny Green)
I also like Western classical music and jazz. (Quote by - Nusrat F. A. Khan)
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. (Quote by - Branford Marsalis)
The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. (Quote by -Bobby McFerrin)
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. (Quote by - Norman Granz)
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. (Quote by - Steve Lacy)
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. (Quote by - Sonny Rollins)
I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.vKen Burns)
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration. (Quote by - Ben Harper)
I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit. (Quote by - Joseph Jarman)