Jazz Quotes · Page 29

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

— Eddi Reader

What's interesting about a person without problems?

— Carla Bley

Being grown up is boring. Besides, I don't get jazz.

— Patrick Star

I would say that jazz is my own language.

— Amy Winehouse

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

— Keith Richards

I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

— Sam Shepard

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

— John Otto

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

— Zeenat Aman

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow…

— Hugh Hefner

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

— Craig Ferguson

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all…

— Oscar Peterson

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

— Robert Wyatt

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

— Cannonball Adderley

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.

— Ella Fitzgerald

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as…

— Bela Fleck

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world…

— Charles Lloyd

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time…

— Zoot Sims

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when…

— Elvin Jones

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our…

— Evan Parker

I love playing jazz because I love the freedom you have to improvise. It has given me a feeling in my classical…

— Julian Bream

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do…

— Ray Charles

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New…

— Jelly Roll Morton

The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it…

— Paul Bley

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily…

— Lee Ritenour

I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it…

— Terry Teachout

“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might…

— Dave Hickey

I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I…

— Hugh Hefner

It wasn't until I got older that when they started putting only one form of music on the stations where I grew…

— Uncle Kracker

I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want…

— Thomas Hampson

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

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

— Dexter Gordon

Listen to her voice, don't look at her.

— Ella Fitzgerald

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

— Tom Curren

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

— Ernst Gombrich

Dianne Reeves, a famous jazz singer, would be my biggest influence.

— LaChanze

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

— Leo Kottke

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

— Creed Bratton

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

— Dexter Gordon