Jazz Quotes · Page 107

When I hear the words jazz pianist, that just means I have the skills to do most things. Because to be a…

— Robert Glasper

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band.…

— Jon Gordon

I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.

— Julian Barratt

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

— Joseph Jarman

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types.…

— Jillian Hervey

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

— Rakim

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

— Pat Metheny

I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they…

— Parker J. Palmer

Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That…

— Wynton Marsalis

I like soul, I like rock, I like new wave, I like punk music, I like blues, I like jazz, and I…

— DJ Premier

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the…

— Cab Calloway

People always ask, "Why jazz?" and I'm like "Why not?" It's kind of like asking Seurat, "Why so many dots?" I imagine…

— Melody Gardot

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

— Lee Konitz

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in…

— Evan Parker

Growing up as a classical musician, you're taught a lot about outreach and about how people aren't being taught music in school.…

— Hilary Hahn

I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and…

— Little Simz

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as…

— Michael Gungor

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

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

— Clarke Peters

I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the…

— Papa John Creach

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

— Rita Coolidge

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

— Thelonious Monk

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

— Nat King Cole

I didn't choose jazz; jazz chose me.

— Melody Gardot