Jazz Quotes · Page 35

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

— Eddie Condon

Let's face it, if you sign the dotted line, you're 'Dancing on Ice,' you've got to go with the glitter and the…

— Michaela Strachan

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

— Stan Getz

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

— Harry James

I have grown up singing Rabindra Sangeet and when I was 16, I started training in jazz.

— Jeet Gannguli

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and…

— Meg Ryan

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

— John Philip Sousa

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these…

— Alasdair MacLean

One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

— John Clellon Holmes

I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and…

— Ramin Djawadi

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my…

— Amy Winehouse

Once 'A.N.T. Farm' started, I was inspired by Chyna to jazz up my style. Now I paint my nails bright, fun colors…

— China Anne McClain

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player.…

— Ray Manzarek

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical…

— Anthony Braxton

You know, another jazz drummer, Ed Thigpen, who played with Oscar Peterson way back - it was the first time I ever…

— John Densmore

When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres…

— Patti Smith

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as…

— Charles Hazlewood

Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old…

— Denis Leary

I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist, I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base." Fly…

— Sheek Louch

We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You…

— Harold Evans

I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want…

— Thomas Hampson

It wasn't until I got older that when they started putting only one form of music on the stations where I grew…

— Uncle Kracker

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

— Wes Montgomery

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

— Charlie Parker

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

— Victoria Arlen

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

— Al Jourgensen

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

— Henry Rollins

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

— Duke Robillard

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

— Joe Pass

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

— Anonymous

People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.

— Charlie Haden

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

— Jan Garbarek

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

— Dizzy Gillespie

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been…

— Nat Wolff

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

— Sonny Rollins

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

— Sean Wilentz

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

— Rachel Stevens