Jazz Quotes · Page 28

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

— Benny Green

I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.

— Kamasi Washington

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

— Kenny G

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

— Travis Barker

Neo soul, hip-hop jazz, we started that.

— Scott Storch

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

— Paul Whiteman

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

— Al Jarreau

Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

— Erroll Garner

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

— Trombone Shorty

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has…

— Ashley Roberts

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

— Jose James

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

— Miles Davis

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a…

— Ryan Adams

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

— Alexis De Veaux

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

— Floor Jansen

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of…

— Alexis Korner

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping…

— Toni Tennille

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else.…

— Jessye Norman

As a singer, I've been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don't belong in any category, male or female, pop or…

— Jimmy Scott

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because…

— Artie Shaw

I grew up a huge Roy Orbison fan. He had such a crazy range. And I grew up listening to old jazz,…

— Borns

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where…

— Doc Severinsen

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown,…

— Idina Menzel

I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type…

— Earl Sweatshirt

I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and…

— Toby Lightman

I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of…

— Charlie Haden

I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical…

— Laufey

I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they…

— Parker J. Palmer

I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening…

— Lupe Fiasco

Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to…

— Paul Bley

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over…

— Madonna Ciccone

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

— Cecil Taylor

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

— Eric Dolphy

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

— Jesse Andrews

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

— Ron Cephas Jones

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

— Lou Rawls

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

— Duke Ellington

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

— Terry Pratchett

I can play all I know in eight bars.

— Charlie Parker