Jazz Quotes · Page 26

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

— Jeff Beck

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art…

— Gary Giddins

Flights are a good way to catch up on podcasts, but I'll listen to some jazz to fall asleep.

— Wyatt Cenac

Let's face it, if you sign the dotted line, you're 'Dancing on Ice,' you've got to go with the glitter and the…

— Michaela Strachan

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record…

— Tom Verlaine

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.

— Lana Del Rey

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

— Luciano Pavarotti

My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to…

— Larry Carlton

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

— Al Jourgensen

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

— Maynard Ferguson

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

— Henri Matisse

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

— John Legend

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit…

— Noah Gray-Cabey

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from…

— Oliver Sacks

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or…

— Rufus Wainwright

Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.

— Lizz Wright

Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got…

— Jamie Cullum

Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music…

— Billy Taylor

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a…

— Mike Gordon

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be…

— Lester Bowie

Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe.

— Jon Hendricks

Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my…

— Natascha McElhone

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the…

— George Gershwin

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it…

— Marla Gibbs