Jazz Quotes · Page 2

I have a secret love of jazz.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

Everything I do is Mingus.

— Charles Mingus

Jazz is my adventure.

— Thelonious Monk

He's no Bill Clinton!

— Benny Carter

You blows who you is.

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz to me is a living music.

— Dexter Gordon

Music is interior decoration.

— Wayne Shorter

You can't just say jazz is dead.

— Statik Selektah

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.

— Al Jarreau

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

— Dylan Moran

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

— Sonny Rollins

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

— Jelly Roll Morton

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

— Dizzy Gillespie

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

— Sid Caesar

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

— Wayne Shorter

I'm a rock drummer. I couldn't sit down and pretend to be a jazz drummer.

— Vinnie Paul

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

— Sarah Vaughan

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

— Horace Silver

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

— Nikita Khrushchev

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

— John Lescroart

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

— Branford Marsalis

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

— Thelonious Monk

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

— Nina Simone

I play in a jazz sextet. So I don't have time to do a lot of conventions. The good thing is, when…

— Peter Weller

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context…

— Wynton Marsalis

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the…

— Jonny Greenwood

This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck…

— Eddie Condon

Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to…

— Thundercat

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect…

— Henry Rollins

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important…

— Rafael Vinoly

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was…

— Charlie Parker

To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz…

— Randy Sandke

Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two…

— Van Morrison

Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet,…

— Robert Glasper

I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing…

— Richard Grossman

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have…

— Amy Ray

My dad, was, by trade, he had a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He's a huge, huge jazz fan. He used to travel…

— Eldar Djangirov

I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I…

— Brittany Murphy

The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people.…

— Terry Teachout