Jazz Quotes · Page 32

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

— Jelly Roll Morton

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us…

— Herb Alpert

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my…

— Jeff Beck

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

— Wynton Marsalis

I worked in reggae, hip-hip, jazz, funk - all the music I used to relate to.

— Mark Morrison

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and…

— Herbie Hancock

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

— Mose Allison

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

— Willie Smith

I play in a jazz sextet. So I don't have time to do a lot of conventions. The good thing is, when…

— Peter Weller

The problem we have is that, some people call it 'too rock' to play on a jazz station, and it's 'too jazz'…

— Allan Holdsworth

Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn't even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit…

— MC Ren

I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good…

— Zutty Singleton

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen…

— Roy Ayers

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico…

— Brian Setzer

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within…

— Greg Thomas

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all…

— Chick Corea

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from…

— Oliver Sacks

That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told…

— Charles Mingus

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;…

— Warren G. Bennis

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit…

— Cornel West

I don't want to put a name on my music. Other people can put a name on what I do. It's just…

— Hiromi Uehara

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or "what you're doing isn't jazz," are just…

— Robert Glasper

It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences…

— Kurt Elling

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

— John Coltrane

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've…

— Casey Abrams

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

— Lionel Hampton

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

— Cathy Freeman

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

— Carly Simon

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

— Artie Shaw

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in…

— Paul Desmond

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

— Walter Becker

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

— Dave Brubeck

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

— Stephane Grappelli

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's…

— Van Morrison

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does…

— Laurie Helgoe

Jazz is a fighter. The word 'jazz' means to me, 'I dare you. Let's jump into the unknown!'

— Wayne Shorter

I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.

— Xavier Woods

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

— Damien Chazelle