Jazz Quotes · Page 55

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

— Roscoe Mitchell

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

— Chuck Mangione

A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.

— Kurt Elling

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

— Robert Glasper

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to…

— Count Basie

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

— Ahmad Jamal

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

— Mitch Kapor

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

— Glenn Miller

Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz…

— Ernest Sosa

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was…

— Brian McKnight

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You…

— Denzel Washington

My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism…

— Booker Little

I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a…

— Condoleezza Rice

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after…

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical,…

— Nat Wolff

I've tried to learn as much as I can about the great jazz singers to understand what makes them important, vital artists,…

— Kurt Elling

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things…

— Ernest Gaines

New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,…

— Wynton Marsalis

I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you…

— Mike Stern

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being…

— Pat Metheny

You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been…

— Teju Cole

I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club…

— Jessie Buckley

“ORIGIN OF JAZZ It was 1906. People were coming and going as usual along Perdido Street in a poor neighborhood of New…

— Eduardo Galeano

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

— Bill Frisell

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

— Diana Krall

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

— Robert Glasper

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

— Branford Marsalis

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

— Thelonious Monk

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait…

— Sun Ra

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

— Matthew Shipp

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get…

— Nicole Richie

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I…

— Ahmad Jamal

I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.

— Daya

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

— Corbin Bleu

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

— Miles Davis

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

— Scott Joplin

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

— Baz Luhrmann

I'm constantly thinking about classical and jazz, how to properly preserve them and pay homage.

— Laufey

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

— Scott Henderson