Jazz music Quotes · Page 4

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music is the power of now.

— Wynton Marsalis

If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.

— Albert Ayler

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

— Toots Thielemans

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

— Ginger Baker

Fusion has been my nemesis.

— Pete La Roca

We must be as pure as our music.

— Albert Ayler

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

— Henry Van Dyke

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

— Pat Metheny

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

— Billie Holiday

Everytime I listen jazz music I think , this is how LOVE should sound

— Laylablack

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

— Gerry Mulligan

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

— Wes Montgomery

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

— Matthew Shipp

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

— Stan Getz

People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as…

— George Benson

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs…

— Patricia Barber

I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey…

— Freddie Hubbard

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

— Roscoe Mitchell

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to…

— Count Basie

Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as…

— Wynton Marsalis

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when…

— Elvin Jones

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world…

— Charles Lloyd

Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may…

— Dave Brubeck

I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language…

— Jackie McLean

In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The…

— Archie Shepp

People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or…

— Gabor Szabo

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music…

— Al Jarreau

Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be…

— John Kao

I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton…

— Cornel West

...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be…

— Miles Davis

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

— Anonymous

This is so nice, it must be illegal.

— Fats Waller

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

— Sun Ra

The jazz musician’s function is to feel,

— Lennie Tristano

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

— Charles Mingus

If people don't like my music now, they will.

— Albert Ayler

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

— Wayne Shorter

A goal is a dream with a finish line.

— Duke Ellington