There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.
I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.
This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!
I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
I'm not a big jazz fan.
This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been used to commodify and reduce black creativity, and also to appropriate and sell it. That's what John Coltrane said in an interview with a Japanese journalist: "Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist." And he's treated as one of the central figures in the history of jazz. So if he rejected it, then why is it weird when I do it? I'm in the tradition!
I'm a great jazz fan.
Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.
I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.
That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.
That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.
Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.
I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.
I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.
I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.
I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.
Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.
Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.
