Jazz musician Quotes · Page 3

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

— Tommy Chong

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

— Joe Pass

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

— Alex Horne

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

— Miles Davis

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

— Demis Roussos

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Jack Welpott

“If my name were Nubby Blues, I wouldn't be a jazz musician, I'd be a disabled Vietnam vet on welfare.”

— Jarod Kintz

I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was…

— Robert Trujillo

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and…

— Dave Brubeck

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

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

— Todd Boyd

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

— Anthony Davis

What makes jazz different is that you can't predict it, it's all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you're…

— Gregory Porter

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

— Donald Byrd

My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It…

— Wynton Marsalis

The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk,…

— Manfred Mann

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

— John Kao

At the end of the day, what are genres? I've spent my whole life trying to fit into some sort of box.…

— Laufey

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

— Cornel West

Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your…

— Glenn Ligon

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and…

— Anais Nin

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

— Andy Richter

“It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.”

— Ted Agon

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

— Jon Stewart

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

— Flea

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

— Michael Connelly

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

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

— David Baker

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

— David Steinberg

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

— Charlie Parker

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

— Miles Kington

I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.

— Tony Bennett

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

— Benny Green

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

— Doc Childre

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

— Wynton Marsalis