Kat Edmonson Quotes

My music is jazz.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

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.

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

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 music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

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.

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

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

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

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

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

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

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 music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

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.