Jazz Quotes · Page 17

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

— Gary Burton

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into…

— Barry Finnerty

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

— Edgar Winter

We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, blues, Mozart, Mary Poppins, Frank Sinatra,…

— Michelle Carter

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

— Ron Cephas Jones

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

— Robert Pinsky

I really enjoy going out with my jazz group. That's something that I don't ever want to stop doing.

— Dianne Reeves

“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also…

— Arlo Parks

I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the…

— Kieran Hebden

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the…

— Miles Davis

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

I get most of my influences from specific genres. I listen to a lot of R&B music, obviously. But, jazz, and bossa…

— Sabrina Claudio

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does…

— Laurie Helgoe

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

— Ginger Baker

I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food.…

— Soledad O'Brien

I love jazz music and sad music.

— Fred Durst

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

— David B. Coe

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

— Oprah Winfrey

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the…

— Imelda May

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I…

— Jackie McLean

That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told…

— Charles Mingus

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.

— Sun Ra