Jazz music Quotes · Page 3

Never play anything the same way twice.

— Louis Armstrong

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; ...

— Charles Mingus

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

— Art Blakey

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

— Nina Simone

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

— Duke Ellington

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

— Danny Carey

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

— Roy Eldridge

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

— John Coltrane

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

— Duke Ellington

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

— Count Basie

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

— Paul Desmond

Nothin' he loved more than jazz music and womens titties. -Ethan Tremblay

— Due Date

I studied classical and jazz music and went to a music school.

— Hardwell

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

— Dexter Gordon

Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.

— Charles Mingus

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

— Albert Ayler

Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot…

— Denny Laine

I've never aspired to make 'jazz music,' I simply aspired to make music that was in a word, self-soothing and relevant to…

— Melody Gardot

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a…

— Chick Corea

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

— Jimmy Page

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I…

— Ahmad Jamal

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone…

— Todd Boyd

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,…

— John Lewis

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently…

— Miles Davis

I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more…

— Sonny Sharrock

When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use…

— Gabor Szabo

I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and…

— Joshua Bell

One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?…

— Chuck Israels

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be…

— Anthony Davis

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole…

— Donald Byrd

What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many…

— Pete La Roca

Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the…

— Harold Land

For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting…

— Astrud Gilberto

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no…

— Thelonious Monk

There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film…

— Randy Weston

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

— Charlie Parker

I love jazz music and sad music.

— Fred Durst

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

— Francoise Sagan

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

— Keith Jarrett

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk