Jazz Quotes · Page 54

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

— Cassandra Wilson

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

— Sarah Vaughan

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

— Patricia Barber

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

— Milt Jackson

You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass.

— Russell Malone

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

— Susan Rice

I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times,…

— DJ Premier

It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry…

— Doug Aitken

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or…

— John Lasseter

The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it…

— Amiri Baraka

The singer who really opened the door for me was Sarah Vaughan. But I listen to so much music, especially when I…

— Dianne Reeves

The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable…

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned…

— Steven Adler

Punk and jazz are the opposite ends of the same spectrum because they are both looking for freedom and they give musicians…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War,…

— Robert Wyatt

When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm…

— Ramsey Lewis

I'm a basketball guy. No sitcom guy. I don't care about all that jazz. I care about basketball. It's not me. And…

— Dick Vitale

Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way…

— Maggie Stiefvater

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big…

— William J. Clinton

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz…

— Molly Ringwald

If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two…

— Coleman Hawkins

I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in…

— Edgar Winter

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

— George Gershwin

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

— King Krule

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big…

— Darryl Pinckney

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy,

— Etta James

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped…

— Kelsea Ballerini

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

— Miles Davis

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

— Stephanie Mills

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

— Sun Ra

Everything that I'm doing, it's like a future jazz, future trap house movement.

— Masego

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

— Mel Torme

I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

— Dianne Reeves

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now…

— Jeff Beck

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

— Isadora Duncan

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of…

— Dave Brubeck