Alan Evans
Related NAT WOLFF NAT WOLFF PETE TOWNSHEND I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where j... AGNES OBEL Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja... AL JARREAU I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played... ALEXIS KORNER At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t... HERBIE HANCOCK But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona... JACK SIMPSON I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing... ETHAN IVERSON Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th... MADELEINE PEYROUX In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because o... MANFRED MANN We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would ha... GEORGE BENSON LAURA MVULA One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people we... HERBIE HANCOCK I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of my... CASSANDRA WILSON I knew of jazz, but I didn't like it. I always thought only older people liked jazz - you know, you ... HERBIE HANCOCK NEIL PEART MILES DAVIS I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all th... BOB IGER Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a... HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.... ART BLAKEY Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. MARC RIBOT I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day. DAMIEN CHAZELLE My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz. DAMIEN CHAZELLE And my answer is very simple. One day somebody stuck a big tattoo on my arm, or on the festival, and... CLAUDE NOBS I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in ja... GLADYS KNIGHT I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in... AARON DIEHL I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ ... TOM VERLAINE Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no j... ART BLAKEY Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people... RITA COOLIDGE Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I d... COLEMAN HAWKINS The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest... AHMET ERTEGUN We play what I call 'soul jazz,' ... The core of the repertoire is a funky, bluesy style of be-bop t... DAVE NELSON I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. RITA COOLIDGE I grew up around jazz. I love jazz. BAZ LUHRMANN LEONARD COHEN I miss u, how can i tell that? I will never find someone like you,i will never love someone as much ... JAZZ Time is precious
If memories are gorgeous
I was religious
But i got meanless
Do god love me?
But he ... JAZZ DOC SEVERINSEN It's a delightful thing to hear how local high school jazz bands are helping 16- and 17-year-old pla... JACK SIMPSON KENNY G [Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's... LIONEL HAMPTON The French-they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time. BILLY HIGGINS WYNTON MARSALIS I always used to say I'm definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there's p... GRETCHEN PARLATO It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself. HERBIE HANCOCK Thompson was involved in the world of jazz. Jazz musicians were interested in his work, and he in th... CURTIS CARTER I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection ... KURT ELLING Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ... JOSE JAMES One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAVID SANBORN FLEA CLINT EASTWOOD BRANFORD MARSALIS Jazz is about being in the moment. HERBIE HANCOCK I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to lear... DONALD FAGEN I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time. BILLY HIGGINS The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. I... MIKE GORDON TOMMY CHONG Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz i... BILLY HIGGINS CHARLIE WATTS As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars. DONALD FAGEN There are a lot of young musicians out there performing what they think is Latin jazz but instead is... EDDIE PALMIERI Jazz music is constantly evolving and women have long been instrumental in shaping the landscape of ... DEREK E. GORDON NINA SIMONE We need it for our psyche. It's like group therapy. We've likened this to a jazz funeral, we mourn o... ARTHUR HARDY This man is so underrated. People talked about Miles Davis as the harbinger of jazz rock, but Paul B... JIM GALLERT MAHALIA JACKSON We are the only major capital city in the world that doesn't have a jazz festival. It's a shame to m... CHARLES FISHMAN IRIS APFEL MARLA GIBBS Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I s... HERBIE HANCOCK The fundamental role that the bass has always had is to outline the lower parts of the harmony and b... DAVE HOLLAND NAT WOLFF [He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz pu... AL HIRT Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the f... JANE SIBERRY For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind. NORMAN GRANZ Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prev... DAVE BRUBECK Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tem... ILLINOIS JACQUET NINA SIMONE Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and ... DAVE VAN RONK Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listenin... TONY WILSON I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what... JAMIE CULLUM I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either ... AL JARREAU The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer. PHOEBE SNOW Jazz is capable of doing much more than depicting the dope fiend and the drunk and the slinky gal. I... HENRY MANCINI What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it. DEXTER GORDON Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o... ARTURO O'FARRILL Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but ja... BILLY HIGGINS I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do somethin... BILLY HIGGINS Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jaz... OSCAR PETERSON BEN OKRI ICE T Things changed so quickly. The Atlantic jazz department just went from under us. MADELEINE PEYROUX He's in a league by himself. Alex has forgotten more about jazz than most of us remember. LEW DUTROW They were hard on us, because these were jazz guys, ... Earl Van Dyke and Joe Hunter were always on ... LAMONT DOZIER KEN BURNS The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for th... RITA COOLIDGE
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It's really about equal and fair access to tool use. ALAN EVANS What we have with this band is a family thing where we all really respect each other's playing. ALAN EVANS Man, he's just one of our idols. I've been listening to Scofield since I was a teenager. One thing I... ALAN EVANS It's cool that we've been able to keep our music fresh and keep people interested. Obviously, there ... ALAN EVANS We're all - especially myself - influenced by old-school music, but we all listen to some new-school... ALAN EVANS These are shocking findings, ALAN EVANS It's fun; we've never really played Boston before. ALAN EVANS All the parties that receive petrol revenue - including the oil companies, service stations and Gove... ALAN EVANS Families are now paying up to $100 every week to fill up the car - the public needs a proper explana... ALAN EVANS Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable. EVANS Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm. ALAN It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are ... WALKER EVANS Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that ... WALKER EVANS Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. WALKER EVANS HAROLD EVANS HAROLD EVANS HAROLD EVANS HAROLD EVANS HAROLD EVANS You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it h... INDIANA EVANS I had been watching 'Home and Away' for quite a while, so joining the cast was quite weird. ... INDIANA EVANS I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is! INDIANA EVANS I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great. INDIANA EVANS When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original. INDIANA EVANS CHRIS EVANS LUKE EVANS I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think... FAITH EVANS People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it. OLIVER EVANS It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and inv... OLIVER EVANS LANE EVANS LANE EVANS LANE EVANS CHRIS EVANS I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older. FAITH EVANS I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive... FAITH EVANS My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business. FAITH EVANS I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with ... FAITH EVANS My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our h... FAITH EVANS Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work. FAITH EVANS I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the w... FAITH EVANS Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for... FAITH EVANS CHRIS EVANS Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla... BILL EVANS History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs.... HUGH EVANS LUKE EVANS We use the people who are in the bullpen producing. BILL EVANS Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and presen... HUGH EVANS LUKE EVANS DALE EVANS DALE EVANS What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. EDITH EVANS A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he... EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations. EDITH EVANS I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ... 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DONALD EVANS HAROLD EVANS CHRIS EVANS DALE EVANS DALE EVANS LUKE EVANS DALE EVANS LUKE EVANS JODIE EVANS This means a lot. Ever since I was a little kid, I'd thought about coming up here and getting to the... BEN EVANS If anything, it woke us up. There were just some miscommunications and some bad things happened. BEN EVANS I was able to get a break on it and there was nothing but green in front of me. We had a pretty good... BEN EVANS Thank you very much. BEN EVANS I've got a wonderful companion (on returns) with Ryan Boehm, ... If they kick it to him, he can do s... BEN EVANS [We have only still photographs of Elvis before he appeared with the then-reigning TV variety shows ... BEN EVANS If other teams just want to pick up a paper and look at the score and just judge it by that, they ca... BEN EVANS Stars are everything and nothing that we think they are.J.M. EVANS CHRIS EVANS CHRIS EVANS BERGEN EVANS BERGEN EVANS BERGEN EVANS BERGEN EVANS BERGEN EVANS BERGEN EVANS BERGEN EVANS BERGEN EVANS BERGEN EVANS Our set plays are really good. We work on them a lot. They are crisp and clean. ANDREW EVANS Try not to go to the hospital if you can help it. ANDREW EVANS We feel like we're under no pressure because we don't believe there will be anyone else out there. ANDREW EVANS We've got a number of options, which include doing nothing, proceeding with the restricted transfer ... ANDREW EVANS Right now, we all have decent jobs. We're not, like, struggling artists trying to scrape by. ANDREW EVANS I don't understand people's weekends. They just plan to go to clubs and drink and dance and go home,... ANDREW EVANS We think of things we've always wanted to do, even when we were kids. ANDREW EVANS The mixture is yet to be finally determined. ANDREW EVANS A decision to proceed with the restricted transfer notice will be made when the outcome of the marke... ANDREW EVANS LUKE EVANS Smokers need something to do with their hands. ANDY EVANS My favorite is pencil drawings. ANDY EVANS This year it changed more than any other time that I've seen or can remember. ANDY EVANS BT has a multiyear plan [to build 21CN]. If you can do it now, you may have a window of a couple of ... ANDY EVANS These are birds that are already endangered, and any further pressure either from the virus itself o... ANDY EVANS I think this is the product of a whole lot of years of hard work. This is what Tatum tradition has e... ANDY EVANS He's a very quiet kid. He's a confident kid, and he's not cocky at all. He's respectful. He's very i... ANDY EVANS Casey was the better team and the better team won. BILL EVANS I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity.... 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I felt like everything went well here. ANJESSA EVANS I grew up with five brothers and have never been around girls. Everything I was taught in the game o... ANJESSA EVANS I feel like my game has improved since coming here. I have enjoyed being at Barton. It's closer to h... ANJESSA EVANS We have to defend the Dog House. If we can't go undefeated through the season, we'll go undefeated i... ANJESSA EVANS It hurts when your season ends, but I think we took it as far as we could. ANJESSA EVANS I just felt that I had to keep shooting. We wanted to leave it all on the floor. It's sad when your ... ANJESSA EVANS Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy. STEPHEN EVANS They had an inning where they scored five runs and we dropped four outs. It's all a ripple effect. U... AMY EVANS We're always preaching score early and score often. The girls seem to relax when we can get out on t... AMY EVANS The first batter of the game the other day got on base with a walk, and she tried to steal. 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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it. 
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I know my heart will never be the same
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I'm so fucking in love with you I don't even know what to do with myself anymore. 
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