Jazz Quotes · Page 37

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

— Jaco Pastorius

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means.

— Gregory Porter

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

— Keith Jarrett

John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.

— Larry Coryell

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

— George Foreman

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

— Lee Konitz

Purple - I mean, the music and the influence and the subliminal touches range from orchestral conversation to jazz to blues and…

— Ian Gillan

I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you…

— Paul Beatty

Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy.…

— Kate Winslet

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it.…

— Stan Getz

Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library…

— Angus Young

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the…

— Aaron Zigman

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but…

— Billie Holiday

The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this…

— Thundercat

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music…

— Scotty Moore

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had…

— Trevor St. John

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are…

— Jamie Cullum

When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by…

— Frankie Valli

There's a more experimental album that follows that, which is like Black Magic and While You Were Sleeping. Then there's a return…

— Jose James

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way…

— Wes Montgomery

The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one…

— Stanley Crouch

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

— Hoagy Carmichael

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

— Nat Hentoff

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

— Bennie Wallace

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

— Cassandra Wilson

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

— Paul Desmond

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap,…

— Maddie Ziegler

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

— Pat Metheny

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

— Dave Brubeck

Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.

— Booker Little

Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.

— Peter Watts

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

— Gerry Mulligan

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.

— Amanda Seales

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not…

— Nina Simone

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

— Count Basie

Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type...

— Harry J. Anslinger

I am working on 'Bombay Velvet'. The music for it is jazz from the '60s.

— Amit Trivedi