Jazz Quotes · Page 39

I wouldn't really call myself a Jazz singer I think it's offending to real Jazz singers to call me a Jazz singer.

— Katie Melua

Intermittently in my concert format, I sing a little jazz, a little scatting.

— Aretha Franklin

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

— George Russell

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

— John Scofield

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

— Robert Pinsky

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

— Jack Welpott

My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

— Kamasi Washington

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

— Herbie Hancock

Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you…

— James Frain

Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin,…

— Jonas Blue

Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall…

— Steve Miller

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn…

— John Lennon

I tried to download a jazz album this week and ended up getting some tracks four times, some once, some three times;…

— Neil Warnock

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music,…

— Billie Holiday

From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest…

— Trombone Shorty

I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll…

— Robert Glasper

Listen, there's been times in my life like the two years that I only listened to jazz, and probably nothing after 1966.…

— Dr. Luke

Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in…

— Joe Rogan

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him.…

— Ted King

My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that…

— Wynton Marsalis

The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture…

— R.J. Rushdoony

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear…

— Albert J. Nock

I'm a jazz guy and a Bruce Springsteen guy. So I wanted something more current, and edgier, and angrier. So I asked…

— Don Winslow

I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just…

— Van Morrison

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of…

— Wynton Marsalis

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

— Norman Granz

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

— Sonny Rollins

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

— Billie Holiday

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music…

— Robert Trujillo

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

— Gary Burton

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

— Jerry Hall

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing…

— Tony Bennett

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

— Max De Pree

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

— Artie Shaw

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

— Anonymous

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

— Stan Getz

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

— Anais Nin

“Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.”

— Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

— Wes Montgomery