Jazz Quotes · Page 45

I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of…

— Paul Smoker

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling…

— Al Jarreau

What are your favorite jazz clubs? Planning gigs to play for later this year & want to get your feedback

— Melissa Morgan

“The guitar breathed. It inhaled and exhaled, and music filled the shop as the instrument picked the heartbreak of generations.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born. ~Run the Voodoo Down~”

— Cassandra Wilson

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

— Herbie Hancock

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

— Van Morrison

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

— Mike Bass

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on…

— Chuck Mangione

But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this…

— Mother Jones

I listen to everything: noise, classical, jazz. I like lots of different types of food. There's no way you could get me…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Even when I was studying musical theater in college, after I would have theory at 8 in the morning and be on…

— Joshua Henry

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised…

— Mose Allison

These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless…

— Andrew Hill

She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the…

— Ella Fitzgerald

It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think…

— Robert Glasper

Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom,…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and…

— Pete Seeger

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and…

— Anais Nin

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as…

— Michael Gungor

I've grown up with jazz - the Joe Hendersons, Oliver Nelsons, Miles Davis and stuff - but I was also listening to,…

— Thundercat

I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is…

— Wes Montgomery

Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints…

— Jesse Stone

The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But…

— Van Morrison

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

— Jon Anderson

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know…

— Branford Marsalis

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

— Paul Bley

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time…

— Adrian Mitchell

For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.

— Jacob Collier

I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops…

— Karen Mason

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might…

— Laurence Fishburne

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any…

— Keith Jarrett

At Norwell High School, I played with The Thompson Brothers. I was also in the jazz band. I acted in a lot…

— Susan Tedeschi

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

— Max Roach

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

— Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

— Steve Lacy

“How to heal Read Books Listen to Jazz Ride Motorbikes Get Tattooed”

— Malebo Sephodi

It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way.

— Ryan North

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

— Kieran Hebden

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence…

— Herbie Hancock