Jazz Quotes · Page 46

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

— Phoebe Snow

I get most of my influences from specific genres. I listen to a lot of R&B music, obviously. But, jazz, and bossa…

— Sabrina Claudio

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

— Dianne Reeves

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

— Buddy Guy

In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.

— Allan Holdsworth

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

— Walter Becker

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut…

— Wynton Marsalis

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

— Count Basie

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't,…

— Kenny G

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be…

— Lester Bowie

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil…

— Lou Reed

Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy…

— Christian McBride

When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice.…

— Sebastian Coe

Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only…

— Charlton Laird

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional…

— Eric Hernandez

That's kinda what happened to me: I listened to jazz, country, R&B, rock 'n' roll. And when I sat down to write…

— J. J. Cale

There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street…

— Garth Hudson

While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the…

— Rza

I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like…

— Steve Winwood

The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.…

— Lester Young

When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting…

— Wynton Marsalis

Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where…

— Haruki Murakami

My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington,…

— Judd Apatow

“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre…

— Jeffrey H. Jackson

[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.

— Teddy Wilson

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

— Phil Woods

But sometimes that title 'jazz' can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be.

— Gregory Porter

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the…

— James McBride

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

— Dexter Gordon

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a…

— Artie Shaw

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

— Anonymous

I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right…

— Chris Rock

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.

— Ginger Rogers

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a…

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

— Charlie Rich

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

— Pat Metheny

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

— Lee Konitz

Ome kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma…

— Ella Fitzgerald

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

— Cassandra Wilson

“Gathering seeds of thoughts, that blows away in the slightest of breezes.”

— Jazz Feylynn