Jazz Quotes · Page 30

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

— Daniel Boulud

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

— Apollo Robbins

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

— Dizzy Gillespie

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

— Paul Whiteman

In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.

— Rosie Perez

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

— David Sanborn

I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.

— Tierney Sutton

The first time I listened to jazz was when I was 8.

— Hiromi Uehara

People want to have access to jazz because it has a vibe that's very strong.

— Kurt Elling

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

— Jan Garbarek

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

— Sara Sheridan

People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz.

— Mahela Jayawardene

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

— Sonny Rollins

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I…

— Joshua Roman

I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

— Phyllis Smith

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

— Andy Richter

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want…

— Michael Giles

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together.…

— Wynton Marsalis

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a…

— Jon Gordon

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school,…

— Mike Tucker

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But…

— Madeleine Peyroux

“I don’t know a thing about jazz.” “That’s okay.” He pulled me toward the door and opened it. “You know music. Jazz…

— Jessica Martinez

In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was…

— Billie Holiday

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think…

— John Lurie

It started so early, it all runs together. But what made a huge impact on me was when I went to Europe…

— Chris Thomas King

I've sort of realized there's a definite pattern to my output at this point: there's an album that everybody sort of loves,…

— Jose James

Growing up as a classical musician, you're taught a lot about outreach and about how people aren't being taught music in school.…

— Hilary Hahn

That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul…

— John R. Rickford

Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie…

— Barry Lyga

I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then…

— Nat Hentoff

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with…

— Wynton Marsalis

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary…

— Mac Miller

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where…

— Chaka Khan

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

— Kenny G

I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.

— Anwar Robinson

“You can’t write music right unless you know how the man that’ll play it plays poker.”

— Duke Ellington

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

— Duke Ellington

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

— David Bowie

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

— Herbie Hancock

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

— Rickie Lee Jones