Jazz Quotes · Page 31

It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way.

— Ryan North

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might…

— Laurence Fishburne

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any…

— Keith Jarrett

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time…

— Adrian Mitchell

For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.

— Jacob Collier

I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops…

— Karen Mason

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

— Van Morrison

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know…

— Branford Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

— Wynton Marsalis

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave…

— Oscar Peterson

I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and…

— Chick Corea

I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind…

— Rita Moreno

“Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting tongue. If a tongue…

— Jazz Feylynn

One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it.…

— CM Punk

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story…

— Taraji P. Henson

Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group…

— Ashley Kahn

Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for…

— Lester Bowie

The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one…

— Stanley Crouch

Barry Harris had a club called Jazz Cultural Theater and there were sessions there on a regular basis. I remember being there…

— Jon Gordon

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way…

— Wes Montgomery

There's a more experimental album that follows that, which is like Black Magic and While You Were Sleeping. Then there's a return…

— Jose James

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had…

— Trevor St. John

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the…

— Herbie Hancock

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

— Jon Anderson

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

— Mike Bass

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

— Paul Bley

There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll…

— Louis Armstrong

I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love…

— Ella Purnell

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

— Dave Van Ronk

“Gathering seeds of thoughts, that blows away in the slightest of breezes.”

— Jazz Feylynn

Rock and jazz came together in a very powerful way on 'Barabajagal.'

— Donovan

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

— Oscar Peterson

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

— Andy Summers

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

— Dave Brubeck

I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.

— Steve Turre

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

— Dexter Gordon

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

— Charlie Rich

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

— Pat Metheny

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

— Cassandra Wilson