Jazz music Quotes · Page 6

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

— Pepper Adams

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

— Lil Jon

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

— Jack Welpott

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

— Andrew Hill

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

— Andrew Hill

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

— Jon Stewart

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

— Duke Ellington

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

— Anthony Braxton

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence…

— Herbie Hancock

I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like…

— Antonia Thomas

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a…

— Artie Shaw

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that…

— Miles Davis

When you are busy with all the live shows and bands, world music and jazz music, it takes time to come back…

— Shankar Mahadevan

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if…

— Esperanza Spalding

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept…

— Bobby Hutcherson

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . .…

— Nina Simone

Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to…

— Paul Bley

If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz…

— Joshua Redman

But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on…

— Romare Bearden

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she…

— Lady Gaga

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had…

— Trevor St. John

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that…

— Van Morrison

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music…

— Jaimoe

To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

— Jelly Roll Morton

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

— Miles Davis

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

— Maynard Ferguson

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

— Bobby Hutcherson

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

— Johnny Griffin

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

— Stan Getz

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

— Charles Mingus

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

— Pharoah Sanders

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

— Colin Greenwood

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

— Wes Montgomery

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

— Bix Beiderbecke

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

— Miroslav Vitous

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

— Sarah Vaughan

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

— Fred Durst