Jazz Quotes · Page 7

You blows who you is.

— Louis Armstrong

He's no Bill Clinton!

— Benny Carter

Fusion has been my nemesis.

— Pete La Roca

I love my jazz hands!

— David Dickinson

You can't just say jazz is dead.

— Statik Selektah

We must be as pure as our music.

— Albert Ayler

“God's timing is like Jazz.”

— Anonymous

Jazz music is the power of now.

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

— Walter Becker

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

— Charles Mingus

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

— Mose Allison

“My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.”

— Jazz Feylynn

“Your idea of romance requires a corset and a time machine.”

— Cath Crowley

Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.

— Stefon Harris

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

— Jan Hammer

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

— Barry Lyga

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and…

— Dave Brubeck

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

— Paul Desmond

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of…

— Steve Lacy

People forget that the same man who did 'Star 80' and 'All that Jazz' also did 'Pardon Me Miss But I've Never…

— Ann Reinking

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

— Emily VanCamp

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

— Anonymous

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be…

— Jim Sullivan

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative…

— Wynton Marsalis

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really…

— Alex Clare

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell…

— Charles Mingus

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening…

— Josephine de La Baume

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play…

— Samantha Barks

I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's…

— Rachel Miner

It wasn't hard coming off technical playing and playing the simplistic eighth notes the Ramones were known for. I'd always listened to…

— Marky Ramone

Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where…

— Haruki Murakami

“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre…

— Jeffrey H. Jackson

When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use…

— Gabor Szabo

If I want to do an orchestral record, if I want to do an acoustic record, if I want to do a…

— Steven Wilson

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to…

— Gillian Flynn

We tried the first evening to go down Division Street and Rush Street, but we couldn't get in anywhere because they didn't…

— Judd Nelson

As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the…

— Nina Simone

The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old,…

— Grace Kelly