Showing posts with label Popularity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Popularity. Show all posts
Tal Farlow Quotes
"For something to gain so much popularity and appeal for so many people, it has to be either musically valid or so commercial that you can't ignore it, especially if your living depends on it. Jazz has never really reached that kind of popularity and I don't think it ever will, because you're actually playing for musicians and musicians are not a good crowd to play for. If you are going to try and make some money, you've got to appeal to a wider area than that. But I think that it's the musicians that determine who's good, who goes to the top, and who gets work. I guess the enthusiasts who are not involved in it, just take the musicians word for it." - Tal Farlow
Benny Goodman Quotes
"I don’t really stay that much in touch with it. All I’ll say is that I can’t imagine someone forty years from now reminiscing fondly about having heard Blondie, or even the Rolling Stones, or—what was the name of that group the other day—Clash. What could they say about it? “Remember the volume, the flickering lights? Remember when we got high?” I kind of doubt it." - Benny Goodman
source: Interview with American Heritage Magazine (Oct/Nov, 1981)
source: Interview with American Heritage Magazine (Oct/Nov, 1981)
John Corigliano Quotes
"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it." - John Corigliano
Roy Ayers Quotes
"Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property." - Roy Ayers
Sun Ra Quotes
"Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me." - Sun Ra
Cab Calloway Quotes
"Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club." - Cab Calloway
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community." - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold." - Branford Marsalis
