Jazz Quotes · Page 2

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music…

— Jaimoe

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from…

— Billy Taylor

One never knows, do one?

— Fats Waller

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

— Duke Ellington

I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock,…

— Van Morrison

I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a…

— Nick Antosca

Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means.

— Gregory Porter

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

— Patricia Barber

Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall…

— Steve Miller

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised…

— Mose Allison

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my…

— Amy Winehouse

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased…

— Haruki Murakami

The Democrat Party today is not enamored of Bill Clinton. They may not even be enamored of Hillary [Clinton]. But the things…

— Rush Limbaugh

You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a…

— Kurt Elling

We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.

— David Steward

I think on my passport form I described myself as 'entertainer,' filling it in, in a Post Office or something. I felt…

— Limmy

Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation and it's connected to everything.

— Jonathan Batiste

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up,…

— Lari White

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

— Stan Getz

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach,…

— Steve Reich

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

— Keke Palmer

The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet…

— Jon Gordon

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called…

— Rene Auberjonois