Jazz Quotes · Page 48

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the…

— Miles Davis

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

— Dave Clark

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

— Travis Barker

“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong”

— Louis Armstrong

That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people…

— Kurt Elling

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it,…

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

— Chris Barber

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

— Gary Burton

During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed…

— Geezer Butler

I'm playing jazz throughout the song 'Black Sabbath.' That's what it is there. I mean, I'm moving some other things around, but…

— Bill Ward

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal…

— Damien Chazelle

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just…

— Robert Glasper

I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to…

— Zara Larsson

As we all know, the evil of slavery and the sting of the whip have given us many things including the voice…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and…

— Christopher Plummer

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through…

— Sonny Rollins

I was in school for jazz voice, which is the dumbest way to spend $35,000 a year. I just felt like a…

— Nellie McKay

I was up for parts in 'Charlie's Angels' and 'Three's Company,' but other people got them. At the time I was very…

— Ann Reinking

There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a…

— Kamasi Washington

People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing…

— Kamasi Washington

I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation…

— Herbie Hancock

You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close…

— Gail Ann Dorsey

I have a taste for a lot of different kinds of music... everything, from hip-hop to jazz to R&B to top 40…

— Ray Allen

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant…

— Pete Seeger

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

— Jerry Hall

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

— Billie Holiday

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music…

— Robert Trujillo

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

— Artie Shaw

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing…

— Tony Bennett

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

— Max De Pree

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

— Anais Nin

“Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.”

— Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

— Stan Getz

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

— Anonymous

There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "

— Art Blakey

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz…

— Willie Nelson

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

KKJZ is a very famous jazz station and there aren't many more around like them.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

— Joshua Redman