Jazz Quotes · Page 32

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft

— John Coltrane

When I arrived in America at the end of 1967, my only purpose was to observe (for a couple of months) my…

— Flora Purim

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

— David Bowie

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and…

— Herbie Hancock

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all…

— Chick Corea

For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because…

— Lizz Wright

I like jazz in all the ways that it is played.

— Bill Ward

Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.

— Kevin Young

“Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps…

— Rachel Joyce

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.

— Zooey Deschanel

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand,…

— Charlie Parker

I can play all I know in eight bars.

— Charlie Parker

Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to…

— Thundercat

Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of…

— Andy Cohen

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

— Ice T

What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get…

— John Gimlette

America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy…

— Michael Bywater

Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's…

— Kamasi Washington

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then…

— Carol Friedman

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and…

— Tom Sizemore

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the…

— Duke Ellington

I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away…

— Duke Ellington

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play.…

— Miroslav Vitous

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

— Cy Coleman

I like to say I listened to three genres of music growing up: classical, jazz and Taylor Swift.

— Laufey