Jazz Quotes · Page 47

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

— Chico Hamilton

I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!

— Tommy Dorsey

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

— Robert Glasper

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

— Jimi Hendrix

Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

— Bill Milkowski

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

— Ornette Coleman

Bibidy, bom bi bom, mek, jazz go mad. Bibidy, bom bi bom, mek, house go mad.

— Reel 2 Real

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

— Patti Page

I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where…

— Billy Higgins

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the…

— Robert Glasper

I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St.…

— David Sanborn

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed…

— Paul Desmond

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My…

— Laura Mvula

Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate…

— John Kao

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can…

— Mike Stern

“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else…

— Jordan Flaherty

There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz…

— Alexandre Desplat

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music…

— Chadwick Boseman

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little…

— Peggy Guggenheim

But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about…

— Wynton Marsalis

I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I…

— Jackie McLean

People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They…

— Henry Threadgill

I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really…

— Blythe Danner

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go…

— Robert Greene

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

— Gary Carter

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

— Billie Holiday

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

— Stan Getz

Gospel, soul, jazz, and R&B were what I felt connected to as an artist.

— Raye

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion…

— John Coltrane

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

— Gerry Mulligan

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

— Wes Montgomery

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

— Boz Scaggs

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

— Simon Helberg

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

— Matthew Shipp

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

— Ahmet Ertegun

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

— Charlie Hunter

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed