Jazz Quotes · Page 56

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's…

— Billy Crystal

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

— Maisie Williams

I hope I'm doing my part in making jazz and classical music more accessible!

— Laufey

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

— George Benson

Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.

— Louie Bellson

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

— Lee Konitz

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

— Dexter Gordon

The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance -…

— Andre Previn

“You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue…

— David Mutti Clark

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

— David Bowie

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so…

— Damien Chazelle

I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so…

— Robert Barry

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're…

— Nina Simone

The emphasis in each piece is on building a whole, totally integrated structure. In doing this, we try to carry on -…

— Cecil Taylor

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music…

— Van Morrison

“And the thing about jazz, through all the business involved in practicing and improvement, it's always sweet: the improvement that you notice…

— Wynton Marsalis

But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the…

— Cornel West

What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get…

— John Gimlette

We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going…

— Steve Miller

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd…

— Jennifer Grey

“I took my solo and beat hell out of the skins. Then Spoof swiped at his mouth and let go with a…

— Charles Beaumont

In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less…

— Ben E. King

To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to…

— Wes Montgomery

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get…

— Yukimi Nagano

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

— John Mayall

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

— Trombone Shorty

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

— Norman Granz

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

— Eldar Djangirov

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

— Norman Granz

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

— Kenny G

Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.

— Shirley Horn

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

— Jimmy Page

Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

— Clark Terry

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard

— Bill Bailey

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

— Max Roach

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

— Norah Jones

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

— Edgar Winter

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

— Robert Fripp