"I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world." - Paul Smoker
source: Interview with Ron Netsky / Rochester City Newspaper (June 22, 2010)
Showing posts with label Jazz Is Dead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jazz Is Dead. Show all posts
Theodor W. Adorno Quotes
"The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite." — Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno Quotes
"Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture." — Theodor W. Adorno
Augusten Burroughs Quotes
"The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons." — Augusten Burroughs
source: Magical Thinking: True Stories
source: Magical Thinking: True Stories
Benny Goodman Quotes
"I always wanted to do things with style. Don’t care if it was clothes, or eating, or women. Or making music. Especially that. If you’re going to do it, do it right. Don’t take second class. You know—I’d rather have one or two good suits than a bunch of crappy ones. One of the things I think is wrong with a lot of what you see today is that it doesn’t have that sense of style, of elegance. I don’t know where it’s gone." - Benny Goodman
source: Interview with American Heritage Magazine (Oct/Nov, 1981)
source: Interview with American Heritage Magazine (Oct/Nov, 1981)
Art Blakey Quotes
"These things, we don't know anything about. Especially the blacks. They don't know anything about Jazz, and it's their own music! And this is where, it all comes from the same thing- it all comes from the Blues, from the santified church, from Negro spirituals on down. You know? They deny it. They don't know it. People let themselves be programmed, because they don't wanna think." - Art Blakey
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
Art Blakey Quotes
"They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back." - Art Blakey
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
Jack Nicholson Quotes
"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy." - Jack Nicholson
Toots Thielemans Quotes
"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians." - Toots Thielemans
Billy Higgins Quotes
"Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't." - Billy Higgins
Richard Williams Quotes
"If Wynton Marsalis is its creative figure head, then jazz is probably really dead this time." - Richard Williams, British jazz journalist.
George Benson Quotes
"Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way." - George Benson
John Philip Sousa Quotes
"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains." - John Philip Sousa
George Russell Quotes
"If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable." - George Russell
Paul Desmond Quotes
"We're working as if it we're going out of style — which of course it is." - Paul Desmond
Chet Baker Quotes
"I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself." - Chet Baker
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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." - Sonny Rollins
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"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
