Jazz Quotes · Page 119

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

— Stan Kenton

Shoes are a big part of your look. I think that if your outfit isn't really something special, then fun footwear is…

— Christian Siriano

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico…

— Brian Setzer

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go…

— Robert Greene

I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of…

— Chris Young

I admire mold-breakers. People that bust free from traditional thinking and change the game completely. Steve Jobs. Charlie Parker (jazz saxophonist). The…

— Josh Linkner

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

— Greg Ginn

I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with…

— Abbey Lincoln

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a…

— Herbie Hancock

It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element.…

— Robert Glasper

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

— Keith Richards

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good…

— Philip Larkin

“A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit.”

— Jazz Feylynn

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

— Renee Fleming

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

— David Bowie

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility…

— Charlie Hunter

You can't just play a house set for four hours at the Sheraton. You have to be creative and throw in some…

— Mija

Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing…

— Sonny Sharrock

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative…

— Kamasi Washington

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

— Billie Holiday

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

— Norman Granz

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of…

— Jay Griffiths

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've…

— Ornette Coleman

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances…

— Quincy Jones