Jazz Quotes · Page 105

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

— Jo Jones

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

— Alexandre Desplat

I was three or four, and my mother would have a Bing Crosby record playing through the house. It was my introduction…

— Michael Buble

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

— Chad Smith

Even when I was studying musical theater in college, after I would have theory at 8 in the morning and be on…

— Joshua Henry

The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire…

— John Scofield

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown,…

— Idina Menzel

You know, as kids were weren't jazz musicians or anything. But, the circle of friends and the neighborhood I lived in, we…

— John Petrucci

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually…

— Brian Eno

How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for…

— Eddie Murphy

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

When you work with a good composer, you don't tell him what to write. If he knows your playing, he will do…

— Stan Getz

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

— Cassandra Wilson

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

— Madeleine Peyroux

Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

— Art Blakey

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work…

— Sonny Rollins

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

— Nikki Giovanni

Beale Street is a very famous street in the history of America. You know, American music in particular. From the blues to…

— Ron Cephas Jones

My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But…

— Steve Miller

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

— Alice Walker

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

— Zeenat Aman

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

— Lester Bowie

Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.

— Steven Wilson

I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.…

— Matt Snell