Jazz Quotes · Page 27

I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I…

— Gordon Raphael

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician…

— Damien Chazelle

I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in…

— Charlie Day

Playing jazz in restaurants is too stereotypical.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz.…

— Mike Birbiglia

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

— Herbie Hancock

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

— Rita Coolidge

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

— Chuck Mangione

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music…

— Scotty Moore

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

— Pat Metheny

We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You…

— Harold Evans

In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was…

— Billie Holiday

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get…

— Yukimi Nagano

I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz…

— Nick Kroll

The singer who really opened the door for me was Sarah Vaughan. But I listen to so much music, especially when I…

— Dianne Reeves

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by…

— Ernest Gaines

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.

— Ginger Rogers

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves…

— Kamasi Washington

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

— Amiri Baraka

I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted.

— Dove Cameron

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

— Max Roach

And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then…

— Julian Barratt

He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed…

— Libba Bray

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

— Anthony Braxton