Jazz Quotes · Page 33

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used…

— Bryan Ferry

Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in.…

— Dianne Reeves

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

— Donald Fagen

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

— Scott Storch

Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to…

— David Sanborn

Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are…

— Robert Wyatt

Four Tet is somebody I respect a lot. There are other artists I admire like jazz pianist and composer Marc Moulin.

— Bonobo

Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade…

— Melody Gardot

I know it sounds silly, but it takes some time getting used to all the cameras in your face. I think it's…

— Monica Raymund

The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we…

— Zooey Deschanel

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only…

— Billy Higgins

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

— Wes Montgomery

I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them.…

— Gary Carr

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction…

— Amy Tan

I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.

— Xavier Woods

The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk,…

— Manfred Mann

I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a…

— Charlie Clouser

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

— Eddie Condon

“An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time”

— Nicole Mones

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

— Dizzy Gillespie

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

— Stan Getz

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

— Chris Barber

When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it…

— Louis Armstrong

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

— Wynton Marsalis

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

— Van Morrison