Jazz Quotes · Page 38

I've never been on a board, but I just went on the board for Jazz at Lincoln Center. I'm very happy about…

— Larry Gagosian

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

— Danny Barker

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

— Ornette Coleman

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

— Kurt Elling

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

— Demis Roussos

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

— Pepper Adams

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

— Roy Eldridge

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

— Wynton Marsalis

The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one…

— George Benson

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music…

— Robert Greene

I'm not a pop singer; I'm not a jazz singer. And I know I sing like not a whole lot of people…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz greats. I'm talking…

— Robin Leach

I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but…

— Simon Helberg

I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I…

— Iris Apfel

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can…

— Paula Cole

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is…

— George Duke

Barry Harris had a club called Jazz Cultural Theater and there were sessions there on a regular basis. I remember being there…

— Jon Gordon

Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for…

— Lester Bowie

Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group…

— Ashley Kahn

Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing…

— Gary Giddins

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later,…

— Wynton Marsalis

“There are more guys than girls in jazz. Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few) but it doesn't matter because, for…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“He’d been toting it, and checking it, and packing and unpacking, all the way since fate was on the river - that’s…

— John Clellon Holmes

I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You…

— Helen Merrill

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

— Gary Burton

You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.

— Jon Gordon

I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.

— Ashley Benson

My mum loves jazz, and together we listen to loads of Chet Baker back home.

— Sigrid

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano…

— Sofia Vassilieva

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

— Steve Lacy

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.

— Herbie Mann

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

— Lil Jon

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

— Thelonious Monk

If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.

— Giuseppe Venuti

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

— Wynton Marsalis

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

— Lou Reed

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

— Chris Barber

I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes.

— Demis Roussos

When you work with a good composer, you don't tell him what to write. If he knows your playing, he will do…

— Stan Getz