Jazz Quotes · Page 22

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century,

— Herbie Hancock

[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to…

— Clark Terry

“He’d been toting it, and checking it, and packing and unpacking, all the way since fate was on the river - that’s…

— John Clellon Holmes

I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

— Chuck Mangione

I always hope that my music is a gateway for people to get to know jazz.

— Laufey

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public…

— John Fuller

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him.…

— Ted King

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played…

— Miroslav Vitous

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

— Cassandra Wilson

Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to…

— Bill Ward

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop,…

— Greta Gerwig

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

— Thelonious Monk

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

— Sonny Rollins

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I…

— Bobby Vinton

Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you…

— Freddie Hubbard

“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and…

— Nathan Reese Maher

It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry…

— Doug Aitken

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is…

— Mike Figgis

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

— Lizz Wright

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams…

— David Amram

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it,…

— Louis Armstrong

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

— Ahmet Ertegun

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

— Herbie Hancock

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have…

— Olivier Messiaen