Jazz Quotes · Page 43

Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music...

— Kurt Rosenwinkel

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

— Chris Carter

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

— Ken Burns

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and…

— Pat Metheny

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

— Freddie Hubbard

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

— Deepika Padukone

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

— Van Morrison

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

— Renee Fleming

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back…

— Louis Armstrong

When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and…

— Jillian Rose Reed

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock…

— The Edge

One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart.…

— Dave Brubeck

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves…

— Kamasi Washington

Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched…

— Diane Ackerman

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very…

— Kiesza

The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk…

— Ad-Rock

If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have…

— KT Tunstall

I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me…

— Ella Fitzgerald

The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock…

— Wesley Willis

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is…

— Le Corbusier

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of…

— Jay Griffiths

Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be…

— John Kao

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music…

— Al Jarreau

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some…

— Henry Rollins

I always hope that my music is a gateway for people to get to know jazz.

— Laufey

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

— Rita Coolidge

I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it.

— Flying Lotus

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

— Toots Thielemans

To me it would be hard to beat how the Jazz look after Renae and every wife or significant other, and even…

— Joe Ingles

I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel…

— Bart Millard

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

— Sheena Iyengar

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to…

— Chick Corea

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

— Michel Legrand

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

— Amiri Baraka

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

— Dianne Reeves

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

— Ella Fitzgerald

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

— Michelle Obama

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

— Kurt Elling

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

— Butch Trucks

My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.

— Julian Barratt