Jazz Quotes · Page 38

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to…

— Chick Corea

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

— Rita Coolidge

I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it.

— Flying Lotus

To me it would be hard to beat how the Jazz look after Renae and every wife or significant other, and even…

— Joe Ingles

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

— Toots Thielemans

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and…

— Pat Metheny

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

— Deepika Padukone

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

— Freddie Hubbard

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really…

— Alex Clare

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative…

— Wynton Marsalis

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be…

— Jim Sullivan

My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also…

— Arlo Parks

At 3 A.M., I'm still up watching videos of jazz heroes I never saw live. It's so thrilling. And not just the…

— Bonnie Raitt

Charlie Parker said, 'Jazz comes from who you are, where you've been, what you've done. If you don't live it, it won't…

— David Dellinger

My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But…

— Steve Miller

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk…

— Ikue Mori

As for what I look for, I don't know any other way to put it, but I look for truth, and honesty,…

— Trevante Rhodes

...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord…

— Alice Coltrane

I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's…

— Pharoah Sanders

Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your…

— Wynton Marsalis

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary…

— Mac Miller

“Came Honker's trip to Slice City along about then: our sax-man got a neck all full of the sharpest kind of steel.…

— Charles Beaumont

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did and I'd say, well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical…

— Laura Mvula

That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul…

— John R. Rickford

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

I always hope that my music is a gateway for people to get to know jazz.

— Laufey

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

— Renee Fleming

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

— Ken Burns

Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music...

— Kurt Rosenwinkel

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

— Chris Carter

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

— Deborah Moggach

I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about…

— Colm Wilkinson

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

— Michael McKean

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

— Renee Fleming

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

— Norman Granz

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been…

— Nat Wolff

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

— Sean Wilentz

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

— Rachel Stevens