Jazz Quotes · Page 5

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

— Ron Cephas Jones

We're here to have a ball.

— Art Blakey

I'm into scales right now.

— John Coltrane

Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

— Thelonious Monk

I love jazz music and sad music.

— Fred Durst

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

— Louis Armstrong

“Jazz je punk pro staré lidi.”

— Gayle Forman

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

— Norman Granz

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

— Steve Lukather

I like the girls to match the upholstery of the car.

— Charlie Barnet

My little brother is just an amazing Jazz pianist and sax player.

— Josh Freese

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

— Coleman Hawkins

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

— John Coltrane

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

— Rick Derringer

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

— Apollo Robbins

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

— Daniel Boulud

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl…

— Johnny Mercer

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

— Jon Lord

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

— Herbie Mann

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

— Herbie Hancock

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

— Stan Kenton

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

— Nina Simone

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

— Billy Crystal

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the…

— John Coltrane

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility…

— Charlie Hunter

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the…

— Albert Murray

Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life…

— Gregory Porter

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into…

— Laverne Cox

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can…

— Stewart Copeland

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference…

— Dave Brubeck

My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds…

— Bennie Wallace

I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New…

— Sylvia Plath

But my dad was a jazz pianist and plays by ear, and all my family are musical. And that bizarrely, is quite…

— Rhod Gilbert

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's…

— Roy Haynes

Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel…

— Brian Regan

I admire mold-breakers. People that bust free from traditional thinking and change the game completely. Steve Jobs. Charlie Parker (jazz saxophonist). The…

— Josh Linkner

I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect.…

— Nicholas Royle

I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form,…

— Andrew Bird

There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's -…

— Jose James