Jazz Quotes · Page 44

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as…

— Jose James

Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was…

— India Arie

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

— Justin Guarini

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me.…

— Reggie Watts

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.

— Ella Fitzgerald

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

— Bob Iger

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

— Robert Wyatt

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music…

— Yanni

There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it…

— Frankie Valli

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties…

— Gerry Mulligan

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection,…

— Billy Crystal

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum,…

— Ahmad Jamal

I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the…

— Shane MacGowan

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams…

— David Amram

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect…

— Branford Marsalis

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called…

— Haruki Murakami

I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton…

— Cornel West

Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk…

— Jack Kerouac

At the end of the day, what are genres? I've spent my whole life trying to fit into some sort of box.…

— Laufey

...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be…

— Miles Davis

Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician…

— Chuck Israels

Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your…

— Glenn Ligon

In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I…

— Toni Morrison

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all…

— Oscar Peterson

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

— Cannonball Adderley

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow…

— Hugh Hefner

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

— Craig Ferguson

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

— Alexis De Veaux

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

— Floor Jansen

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

— Zeenat Aman

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has…

— Ashley Roberts

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

— Trombone Shorty

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

— Jose James

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a…

— Ryan Adams

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

— Miles Davis

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

— Dianne Reeves

“Real women don't love the richest guy in the world they love the guy who can make their world the richest.”

— Jazz Feylynn