Jan Garbarek Quotes

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I've always loved jazz.

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

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.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.

My music is jazz.

As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.