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The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

— Branford Marsalis

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

— Rita Coolidge

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

— Gary Cherone

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

— Kenny G

Some people say that if you do anything other than a straight-ahead groove, that it's not jazz. But that kind of labeling is wrong. Music is what it is; if it sounds good, it sounds good.

— Gerald Clayton

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

— Keith Jarrett

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

— Oscar Peterson

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.

— Rita Coolidge

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

— Billy Higgins

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

— Mose Allison

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.

— George Benson