Jazz Quotes · Page 110

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don't know where…

— Flying Lotus

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

— Cornel West

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

— Thelonious Monk

We've now got a whole generation of jazz musicians who have been brought up with hip-hop. We've grown up alongside rappers and…

— Kamasi Washington

I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through…

— Andrew Hill

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've…

— Casey Abrams

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

— Chico Hamilton

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some…

— Henry Rollins

[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what…

— Pharoah Sanders

I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz…

— Ella Henderson

You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration…

— Wes Montgomery

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out…

— Herbie Hancock

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

— Dizzy Gillespie

Ninja has definitely kind of changed its identity since it first started out. Ninja back in the day was always turntables and…

— Bonobo

Jazz was the beginning of rhythm music, which developed into rock and roll. But what the jazz musicians lost because they were…

— Fela Kuti

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that…

— Rita Coolidge

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

— Roscoe Mitchell

Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going…

— Robert Gottlieb

My little brother is just an amazing Jazz pianist and sax player.

— Josh Freese

Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and…

— Laurie Helgoe

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

— Miroslav Vitous

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially…

— Albert Murray

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

— Bobby Hutcherson