Jazz is pretty much the freest thing you can be a part of. It's the closest thing I can get to flying. It's fun, interactive. In its own way, it's a sport.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
I always leaned toward free jazz... experimental jazz and progressive jazz. I feel like jazz is just part of the flavor and palette that you have as a musician to experiment with.
Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
It's always fun to talk about jazz.
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.