Jazz Quotes · Page 108

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of…

— Eddie Condon

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get…

— Wynton Marsalis

"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word…

— Eldar Djangirov

What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All…

— Steve Wynn

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

— Branford Marsalis

[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course…

— Billy Crystal

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it…

— Andy Garcia

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's…

— Keith Richards

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

— Steve Lukather

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers...

— Pat Metheny

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

— Ken Burns

I became a radio nut. I loved the afternoon serials, and I got into jazz through the radio. I had a subscription…

— George Carlin

Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called…

— Robert Trujillo

“Gathering seeds of thoughts, that blows away in the slightest of breezes.”

— Jazz Feylynn

There are any number of players with extensive jazz backgrounds who haven't been able to fit into other styles," "It all boils…

— Larry Carlton

I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want…

— Thomas Hampson

Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm…

— Tony Bennett

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

— Eddi Reader

Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on…

— Dave Brubeck

Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last…

— Lorde

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

— Wes Montgomery

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

— Cassandra Wilson

I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire…

— Wynton Marsalis

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing…

— Tony Bennett

I've always loved jazz.

— Rita Coolidge