Jazz Quotes · Page 40

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion…

— John Coltrane

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

— Gerry Mulligan

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

— Ahmet Ertegun

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

— Simon Helberg

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

— Matthew Shipp

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

— Boz Scaggs

“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong”

— Louis Armstrong

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

— Dave Clark

Ramps have been employed to look in the bins along the marathon route in London for suspicious packages. They will be paid…

— Anonymous

Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that…

— Tim Commerford

I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and,…

— Stephen W. Thompson

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one…

— Don Bluth

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up,…

— Lari White

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played…

— Miroslav Vitous

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike…

— Chico Hamilton

I first met Linda Lawrence in March 1965 in the green room of 'Ready Steady Go!,' the British pop TV show. Linda…

— Donovan

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul…

— Langston Hughes

In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure…

— Baz Luhrmann

I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their…

— Glenn Miller

We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam…

— John Petrucci

“By the way, this tells you why Auto-Tuned vocals on many contemporary records sound so shallow and lifeless. It’s almost as if…

— Ted Gioia

When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were…

— Paul Smoker

Music, that has mostly earned a 'film music' status in our country, leaves genres like jazz, folk and classical to the niche.…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

— Travis Barker

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the…

— Miles Davis

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

— Charlie Hunter

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

— Chris Barber

That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people…

— Kurt Elling

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it,…

— Louis Armstrong

Bibidy, bom bi bom, mek, jazz go mad. Bibidy, bom bi bom, mek, house go mad.

— Reel 2 Real

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

— Ornette Coleman

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go…

— Robert Greene

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

— Gary Carter

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

— Patti Page

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

— Billie Holiday

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

Gospel, soul, jazz, and R&B were what I felt connected to as an artist.

— Raye