Jazz Quotes · Page 33

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

— Maynard Ferguson

In my neighborhood, it was all jazz for a while. Then we grew up into R&B and soul.

— Don Cornelius

I wouldn't know absolutely everything I've been influenced by, but the first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington.

— Melody Gardot

Player for player, there’s no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

— Andy Gilbert

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and…

— Ray Manzarek

You explore beautiful songs & create your own interpretation of them.

— Joe Lovano

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

— Louis Armstrong

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

— Jay McShann

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as…

— Carla Bley

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So…

— Van Morrison

I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food.…

— Soledad O'Brien

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the…

— Chuck Mangione

“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It…

— Steven Johnson

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used…

— Bryan Ferry

I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music.…

— John McLaughlin

Los Angeles has always been overlooked as far as jazz, and just high-level music in general. But, like, my dad's a musician,…

— Kamasi Washington

I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish…

— Richie Havens

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician…

— Damien Chazelle

The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it…

— Paul Bley

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over…

— Madonna Ciccone

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily…

— Lee Ritenour

I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it…

— Terry Teachout

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

I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening…

— Lupe Fiasco

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

— Pat Metheny

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.

— Patty Smyth

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

— Bobby Hutcherson

When I was in the Pussycat Dolls, I did study jazz and pop, but Latin and ballroom were not at all in…

— Ashley Roberts

I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz…

— Richard Clayderman

It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.

— Scott Yanow

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

— Cassandra Wilson

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

— Dianne Reeves

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

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

— Sonny Rollins

There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

— Barry Harris

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

— Patrick Stump

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

— Jack Nicholson

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

— Keith Jarrett

“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?”

— Nathan Reese Maher