Jazz Quotes · Page 34

Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

— Bill Milkowski

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

— Jimi Hendrix

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

— Cassandra Wilson

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

— Charlie Watts

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

— Miles Davis

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

— Miles Davis

My sister loved country music. My mother loved Spanish music. And my dad was into big band music and jazz.

— Hope Sandoval

“I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.”

— Libba Bray

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our…

— Evan Parker

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where…

— Doc Severinsen

I grew up a huge Roy Orbison fan. He had such a crazy range. And I grew up listening to old jazz,…

— Borns

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as…

— Bela Fleck

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown,…

— Idina Menzel

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world…

— Charles Lloyd

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when…

— Elvin Jones

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time…

— Zoot Sims

She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and…

— Don Alias

There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and…

— Harry J. Anslinger

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you…

— Stan Getz

It's perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn't than what it is: it's not three-minute pop songs, it's not straightforward rock,…

— Gavin Esler

When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of…

— Wynton Marsalis

I prefer to feel uncomfortable by participating in projects were I am not the specialist. I am always the one who knows…

— Gaspar Claus

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this…

— Chrisette Michele

Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about…

— Vijay Iyer

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

— Chico Hamilton

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

— Gerry Mulligan

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

— Billie Holiday

Gospel, soul, jazz, and R&B were what I felt connected to as an artist.

— Raye

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

— Stan Getz

Bibidy, bom bi bom, mek, jazz go mad. Bibidy, bom bi bom, mek, house go mad.

— Reel 2 Real

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

— Ornette Coleman

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go…

— Robert Greene

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

— Gary Carter

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

— Patti Page

“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong”

— Louis Armstrong

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

— Travis Barker

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

— Dave Clark

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed