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It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.

— Damien Chazelle

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

— Damien Chazelle

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.

— Roscoe Mitchell

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 think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up.

— Rebecca Ferguson

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

— Pat Metheny

Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.

— Joey Alexander

We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.

— Kurt Elling

✗Opposing Perspectives

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

— Percy Heath