Jazz Quotes · Page 39

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

— Jan Garbarek

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

— Joe Pass

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

— Anonymous

People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.

— Charlie Haden

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

— Duke Robillard

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

— Henry Rollins

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

— Victoria Arlen

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

— Al Jourgensen

Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him…

— Howard Roberts

None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't…

— Robert Glasper

To most people, jazz-fusion means this dreadful synthetic jazz-rock thing, this jazz-Muzak, which I detest. They also think of jazz as a…

— Allan Holdsworth

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is…

— Dee Dee Bridgewater

I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to…

— Daya

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had…

— Sonny Rollins

As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as…

— Amanda Seales

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good…

— Philip Larkin

Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie…

— Barry Lyga

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with…

— Wynton Marsalis

I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then…

— Nat Hentoff

Growing up as a classical musician, you're taught a lot about outreach and about how people aren't being taught music in school.…

— Hilary Hahn

It started so early, it all runs together. But what made a huge impact on me was when I went to Europe…

— Chris Thomas King

I've sort of realized there's a definite pattern to my output at this point: there's an album that everybody sort of loves,…

— Jose James

I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and…

— Pat Metheny

“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and…

— Nathan Reese Maher

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

— Charlie Parker

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

— Wes Montgomery

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

— Harry James

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

— Stan Getz

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and…

— Meg Ryan

I have grown up singing Rabindra Sangeet and when I was 16, I started training in jazz.

— Jeet Gannguli

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

— John Philip Sousa

I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

— Chuck Mangione

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

— Jaco Pastorius

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

— Duke Ellington

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

— Andy Partridge

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

— Christian McBride

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

— Ahmad Jamal