Jazz Quotes · Page 13

Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie.…

— Harry Connick, Jr

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal…

— Yael Naim

They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

— Dizzy Gillespie

My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George…

— Zach Anner

I listen to a lot of oldies stuff. Some Motown, Michael Jackson, jazz, etc.

— Jaime Harrison

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always…

— Tom Jones

Is there one blues guy who was the most sophisticated and influential, like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong in jazz? Was it…

— Steve Miller

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather…

— Don Ellis

I really love Dinah Washington and anything live from her - she had some of the greatest jazz musicians in the whole…

— Beth Hart

I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.

— Tierney Sutton

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

— Tom Curren

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative…

— Wynton Marsalis

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

— Corbin Bleu

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox…

— Bob Brookmeyer

Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn't even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit…

— MC Ren

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

— Michael McKean

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

— Sonny Rollins

[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.

— Teddy Wilson

If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds…

— Kasi Lemmons

And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about…

— Larry Coryell

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

— Ella Fitzgerald

I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come…

— Charlie Haden

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

— Cassandra Wilson

In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't…

— Cecil Taylor

I think that drummers have come a long way, but they haven't forgotten players like Gene Krupa, or the other jazz players.

— Bill Ward