Jazz Quotes · Page 36

I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about…

— Colm Wilkinson

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

— Deborah Moggach

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

— Michael McKean

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

— Norman Granz

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

— Renee Fleming

“Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere.”

— Max Lucado

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

— Alex Horne

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

I'm so happy they're not calling me Dru anymore. Cause Dru Hill is really four talented guys, and if it wasn't for…

— Sisqo

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way…

— Tobin Bell

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I…

— Sonny Rollins

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies.…

— Nile Rodgers

I think myself, Jose James, and Robert Glasper are expanding the language - really reminding people that the umbrella of jazz is…

— Gregory Porter

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy -…

— Dave Brubeck

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't…

— George Benson

He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential…

— Benny Green

I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I…

— Hugh Hefner

“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might…

— Dave Hickey

I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I…

— Gordon Raphael

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk…

— Randy Weston

What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean…

— Ishmael Reed

Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my…

— Natascha McElhone

I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why…

— Frank Oz

When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead…

— Christian McBride

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

— Henry Threadgill

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

— Talib Kweli

“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”

— Duke Ellington

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century,

— Herbie Hancock

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

— David First

I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.

— Sun Ra

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

— John Coltrane

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even…

— Donovan Bailey

Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation and it's connected to everything.

— Jonathan Batiste

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

— Rita Coolidge

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

— Ahmad Jamal

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

— Duke Ellington

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

— Christian McBride

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

— Andy Partridge

I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

— Chuck Mangione