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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.


Norman Granz

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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
ANITA DIAMENT Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone ...
LADY GAGA Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or ano...
BRIA SKONBERG You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the b...
ERIC BURDON I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena...
CECILIA BARTOLI Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
KEN HILL Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music...
SAM SMITH By the way, this tells you why Auto-Tuned vocals on many contemporary records sound so shallow and l...
TED GIOIA But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona...
JACK SIMPSON It wasn't about the music [on giving up her pop career]
HOLLY VALANCE Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
CLIFF MARTINEZ Jazz: it's got folk, it's got funk, it's got various international influences...it's also got some p...
EMBER SWIFT We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing grow...
DREW HULL They made this decision without the parents' input or having a public hearing.
LAURA RABALAIS [He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz pu...
AL HIRT I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges soaking up so much water.
NEIL LECKMAN Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but ja...
BILLY HIGGINS Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've go...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te...
DAVID SANBORN Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz i...
BILLY HIGGINS My music is jazz.
YUSEF LATEEF I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Her...
JANE WIEDLIN It is also jazz mass. It is in jazz idiom. There are definitely some Latin-based pieces.
JOE NEGRI To put on your suit and play jazz music, ... knowing that many people in your audience have never ex...
WYNTON MARSALIS I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awes...
SHANE HARPER Jazz is the music of the body
ANAIS NIN I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, ...
IDINA MENZEL If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't goo...
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NORMAN GRANZ To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than ...
NORMAN GRANZ I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart fr...
NORMAN GRANZ For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
NORMAN GRANZ My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
NORMAN GRANZ Jazz is democracy in music.
WYNTON MARSALIS Why should Allah chastise you if you are grateful and believe? And Allah is the Multiplier of reward...
QURAN I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input.
LOUI ANTONUCCI The public hearing is the time and place for public discussion.
CONNY CULVER I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a...
JEFF HEALEY There also will be an opportunity for the public to request a hearing, and there is a time frame ass...
DIANE SCRENCI I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ...
JOHN LEGEND New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify mus...
YANNI For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop mus...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Stree...
SAOIRSE RONAN Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it...
PETER TORK I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even ...
THOM YORKE I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the ja...
LAURA MVULA My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ...
WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new in...
NINA SIMONE Jazz is the folk music of the machine age
PAUL WHITEMAN Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
PAUL WHITEMAN Maybe there'll be new bits of music that will start showing up. You know? Like what happened in the ...
JAN HAMMER I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with...
TROYE SIVAN The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywh...
BONNIE RAITT I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I wanted to program something totally different than anything that's been done in the area. It's als...
CATHERINE ROBINSON Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
FRANCOISE SAGAN Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o...
ARTURO O'FARRILL Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stand...
MAYA ANGELOU Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
MARC RIBOT Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
PETER TORK Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowin...
FRANK HERBERT Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love p...
PETE WENTZ Music is a hit. People love coming and hearing live music.
CAROL WILSON The jam band idiom is kind of the new jazz as these kids will be growing up with this music as this ...
BOB WEIR Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been inf...
YO-YO MA I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has a...
LOU RAWLS You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are workin...
AUTRE NE VEUT I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it...
AARON NEVILLE I do not know any player, who could strike a golf ball like he (Norman) can, as far as hitting it so...
LEE TREVINO So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm start...
DAVID GUETTA Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes ...
IAIN PEARS Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own...
ARLO GUTHRIE When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of...
LAUREN DAIGLE Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
JELLY ROLL MORTON I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
SIOBHAN FAHEY And my answer is very simple. One day somebody stuck a big tattoo on my arm, or on the festival, and...
CLAUDE NOBS Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
JOHN CUSACK The thing that I think is cool about pop music in general is just that it's not like rock music or c...
FORREST KLINE I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just ev...
GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA Difficult music is just a huge challenge. I've always been interested in music that didn't have pop ...
JOSH BLAIR I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time with...
BOB MARLEY This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspira...
JOHN SCOFIELD Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or...
TONY BENNETT Disco is just pop music you can dance to.
SHEENA EASTON What's missing from pop music is danger.
PRINCE The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
BARRY GIBB Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, ...
DEXTER GORDON What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou...
BONO I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicia...
SONNY ROLLINS Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
DOUG HORTON I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's i...
RACHEL MINER I do love brash pop music. It's fun.
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NORMAN COUSINS Laughter is inner jogging.
NORMAN COUSINS Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its a...
NORMAN PODHORETZ If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
NORMAN DOUGLAS One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's...
NORMAN MAILER Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been...
NORMAN BORLAUG Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer...
NORMAN BORLAUG There are no miracles in agricultural production.
NORMAN BORLAUG Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside i...
NORMAN LINDSAY