Jazz Quotes · Page 42

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more…

— Wynton Marsalis

I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

— Ophelia Lovibond

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

— Alice B. Toklas

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession,…

— Duke Ellington

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

— Keke Palmer

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

— Nina Simone

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

— Anais Nin

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather…

— Christian Scott

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical…

— Gary Burton

Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft,…

— Butch Trucks

For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and…

— Woody Allen

My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George…

— Zach Anner

People always ask, "Why jazz?" and I'm like "Why not?" It's kind of like asking Seurat, "Why so many dots?" I imagine…

— Melody Gardot

I think L.A. has one of the most innovative and forward-thinking jazz scenes in the world. New York definitely has the volume…

— Kamasi Washington

It falls in all the cracks, from classical music to jazz,. Anywhere there's a hole in the floor, my music falls through…

— Allan Holdsworth

All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different…

— Michael Jackson

“The very first thing I remember in my early childhood is a flame, a blue flame jumping off a gas stove somebody…

— Miles Davis

I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We…

— Hozier

I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz'…

— Leon Russell

I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and…

— Andy Serkis

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an…

— Edgar Meyer

“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that.…

— John Legend

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

— Jon Gordon

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

— Kurt Elling

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

— Natalia Vodianova

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before…

— Miles Teller

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

— Sun Ra

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a…

— Gloria Gaynor

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the…

— Roberta Flack

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

— Dave Liebman

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

— Dizzy Gillespie

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular…

— Larry Coryell

We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.

— Walter Becker

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

— Miles Davis

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

— Emilia Clarke

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

— Bob Brookmeyer

“A psychic friend could come in very handy." I reshuffled my cards. "I predict I will," she said.”

— Cath Crowley

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

— Ahmet Ertegun