King Krule Quotes

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

My music is jazz.

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

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Jazz is the American’s preferred music, and it is created by Negroes to satisfy their love of noise and to whet their sexual desires ...

Jazz music is the American's music of choice. This is that music that the Negroes invented to satisfy their primitive inclinations, as well as their desire to be noisy.

Jazz is a part of me.

Jazz music is the power of now.

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

Jazz to me is a living music.

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

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

The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.

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

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

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

Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

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