Jazz Quotes · Page 24

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music…

— Quincy Jones

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

— Anonymous

Thelma and I are excited to work with UMSL around our shared passion for jazz and education and make this initial investment…

— David Steward

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work…

— Jane Siberry

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I…

— Chad Smith

Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.

— Juliette Lewis

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

— Jimi Hendrix

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

— Zoot Sims

I love swing, jazz, blues, standards. I love the American songbook, Gershwin, Berlin. It's all that. So I'm born in the wrong…

— Sarah Lancashire

Let the music speak for itself.

— Roy Hargrove

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights…

— Archie Shepp

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

— Trombone Shorty

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

— Richard Holbrooke

Music is interior decoration.

— Wayne Shorter

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within…

— Julio Cortazar

I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

— Natalia Vodianova

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie…

— John Legend

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is…

— Le Corbusier

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

— Robert Cray

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

— Michael Nutter

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can…

— Stewart Copeland

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same…

— Paula Cole

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the…

— Laura Lippman

In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort…

— Jake Epstein