Jazz Quotes · Page 24

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

— Herb Pomeroy

The jazz musician’s function is to feel,

— Lennie Tristano

The history of a people are found in its songs.

— George Jellinek

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

— Louis Armstrong

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

— Anita Diament

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

— Lester Bowie

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

— Zoot Sims

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

— Sun Ra

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

— Stephanie Mills

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

— Miles Davis

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped…

— Kelsea Ballerini

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy,

— Etta James

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

— Jo Jones

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

— Hozier

“Elevators are supposed to smell like urine. That's what make the jazz playing through the overhead speakers sound more authentic.”

— Jarod Kintz

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come…

— Maxim Gorky

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only…

— Cab Calloway

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom…

— Herbie Hancock

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and…

— George Shearing

I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey…

— Freddie Hubbard

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs…

— Patricia Barber

How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for…

— Eddie Murphy

D.C. is a great place. The music, jazz, has always been great here, the restaurants have always been fantastic here. And there's…

— George Lopez

If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have…

— KT Tunstall

“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an…

— Edgar Meyer

If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that.…

— John Legend

The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But…

— Van Morrison

While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the…

— Rza

There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street…

— Garth Hudson

I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is…

— Wes Montgomery

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

— Branford Marsalis

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

— Richard Holbrooke

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

— Flea

Jazz does what it wants to, and so does The Wu.

— Amanda Seales

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

— Jane Asher

We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

— Woody Herman

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

— Wayne Shorter

Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.

— Sam Shepard