Jazz Quotes · Page 36

I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.

— Daniel Ek

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this…

— Chrisette Michele

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people…

— Robert Emerson Coleman

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

— Dizzy Gillespie

In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The…

— Archie Shepp

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

— Thelonious Monk

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

— Jim Coleman

Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn…

— Meghan Trainor

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

— Travis Barker

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

— Brian Eno

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty…

— Eric San

Listen well and listen to as much as you can. By that I mean, if you're not into jazz, don't listen to…

— Josh Freese

I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these…

— Alasdair MacLean

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

— Sam Shepard

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to…

— Jeff Beck

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

— Tom Harrell

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

— Sarah Vaughan

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

— Jan Vogler

But I don't have anything to prove. My reputation is what it is. It seems that a lot of gay men are…

— Fred Hersch

I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-­dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

— Deborah Moggach

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really…

— Chad Hugo

I did jazz dance for a few years.

— Sharon Van Etten

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

— John Clellon Holmes

“Yet I’ve noticed the same thing when your band plays — the most amazing social coherence, as if you all shared the…

— Thomas Pynchon