Jazz Quotes · Page 30

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

— Paul Whiteman

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

— Mark Pellegrino

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

— Art Blakey

I teach jazz dancing and I can be a guest teacher whenever I want.

— Ann Reinking

Dont clap Im not a jazz band for Christs sake.

— Dylan Moran

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

— Van Morrison

Jazz never ends... it just continues.

— Sonny Rollins

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

— Robert Cray

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me.…

— Reggie Watts

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

— Bob Iger

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut…

— Wynton Marsalis

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

— Walter Becker

I get most of my influences from specific genres. I listen to a lot of R&B music, obviously. But, jazz, and bossa…

— Sabrina Claudio

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

— Dianne Reeves

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

— Buddy Guy

In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.

— Allan Holdsworth

We do ballet dancing, Irish dancing, Scottish, jazz, tap - whatever country we're in or whatever culture that we'd like to present…

— Emma Watkins

I think on my passport form I described myself as 'entertainer,' filling it in, in a Post Office or something. I felt…

— Limmy

I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I…

— DJ Khaled

That was something we were trying to figure out: Are we allowed to do a jazz song? Are we allowed to do…

— Ryan Ross

A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could…

— Brian Eno

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the…

— Walter Becker

Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as…

— Wynton Marsalis

In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that.…

— Bill Orcutt

I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist, I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base." Fly…

— Sheek Louch

Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old…

— Denis Leary

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as…

— Charles Hazlewood

When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres…

— Patti Smith

“There are more guys than girls in jazz. Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few) but it doesn't matter because, for…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“He’d been toting it, and checking it, and packing and unpacking, all the way since fate was on the river - that’s…

— John Clellon Holmes

Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing…

— Gary Giddins

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later,…

— Wynton Marsalis

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

— Kieran Hebden

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence…

— Herbie Hancock

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

— Phoebe Snow

At Norwell High School, I played with The Thompson Brothers. I was also in the jazz band. I acted in a lot…

— Susan Tedeschi

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

— Steve Lacy

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

— Ella Fitzgerald

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

— Max Roach

“How to heal Read Books Listen to Jazz Ride Motorbikes Get Tattooed”

— Malebo Sephodi