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Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician

Grace Jones

Inside Story

1986

close my eyes, and look at him,
Victor should have been a jazz musician, 
I said to myself, Victor should have been a jazz musician,

I looked at his

to understand jazz itself.

The jazz musician likes to improvise. They play a bit of a song and then they make stuff up as they go along, or cut loose if you

he's auditioning for Dragnet
So you stand on the corner looking kinda torn
And in the Blue Light Lounge
Where death was born
The jazz musician blows his

The life of a jazz musician is a difficult life.
Because you want to play...
You want to be...
You want to get to the inner spirit.
Sometimes you

Pencil Thin Mustache

Jimmy Buffett

Living and Dying in 3/4 Time

1974

But only jazz musicians were smokin' marijuana
Yeah, I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too

Thin, thin,

But only jazz musicians were smokin' marijuana
Yeah, I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too

Thin, thin,

the mold of a new jazz musician
We got Oscar Peterson on the track, you would notice if you listened to the jazz greats
Art Tatum, Thelonious Monk, man I'm

Jazz musicians in the world
Those are the people who play jazz music
They play jazz
They play music for you to dance by
Music you can jump on down on

Hip Hop Is Dead

Nas

Hip Hop Is Dead

2006

So you can't blame jazz musicians
Or David Stern with his NBA fashion issues
Oh, I they like me in my white tee
You can't ice me, we here for life,

half-empty or is it half-full?
I fill mine up with Hennessy, then get back to him
I'm just a jazz musician trapped in a rap form
You think you standing for

intellectuals will only half listen
So you can't blame jazz musicians
Or David Stern with his NBA fashion issues
Oh, I think they like me, in my white tee
You

Soho (Needless to Say) [Bonus Track]

Al Stewart

Rhymes in Rooms

1992

Deadline"
Jazz musicians are down on the breadline
Soho (needless to say)
I'm alone on your streets on a Friday evening
I've been here all of the day
I'm

headline "Midde East Deadline" 
Jazz musicians are down on the breadline 
Soho (needless to say) 
I'm alone on your streets on a Friday evening 
I've

Hip Hop Is Dead [Video]

Nas

Shodown

2007

Most intellectuals will only half listen 
So you can't blame jazz musicians 
Or David Stern with his NBA fashion issues 
Oh, I they like me in my

So you can't blame jazz musicians
Or David Stern with his NBA fashion issues
Oh, I they like me in my white tee
You can't ice me, we here for life,

Come into the back and take your time and have a good look
Old man laughs with flowers in his hair
Newspaper headline "Midde East Deadline"
Jazz

I Remember

Takeoff

The Last Rocket

2018

before Backwood, it was papers
Reminiscing 'bout that purp I used to smoke just like the Lakers
I'm a jazz musician, came from Utah, Derrick Favors

I

three jazz musician friends to an improvisation session in 1995 with the theme of outer space, my goal was to come close to this timelessness. I

old good friends
With a studio grinding out each day
A city full of jazz musician's
With live nights
From Monday to Sunday
Noize in the back of your

drummers in history.
He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington,

something
And I hope that I
Help those around me
I'll be like those jazz musicians
Dropping all those records at 90
Fit check, fit check, fit check
Bro, I be

But then Angelou said "Like dust she’ll rise for art"

My jazz musicians, artists from creation  
Sax in the style of Coltrane and Gordon 
Piano from

[This is casual jazz and i'm ralph gleason]
Casual cannibal
Palette like hannibal
Hands should be manacled

Magic alchemically
Gold from a copper

artists, jazz musicians
They was battlin with heroin addiction
Pumps and preachers, some with bad habits
Single black mothers, who ain't never have it