Jazz Quotes · Page 40

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

— Herbie Hancock

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

— Rita Coolidge

Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation and it's connected to everything.

— Jonathan Batiste

I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.

— Sun Ra

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

— John Coltrane

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even…

— Donovan Bailey

“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”

— Duke Ellington

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century,

— Herbie Hancock

[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course…

— Billy Crystal

[Eddie Locke] had a huge impact in my life. He was a great jazz drummer. He was mentored by Papa Joe Jones…

— Jon Gordon

"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word…

— Eldar Djangirov

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz…

— Artie Shaw

Given the hipness of transsexualism with people like Caitlyn Jenner and Jazz Jennings, there might be a third category, especially among children,…

— Steve Bannon

When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light…

— Shorty Rogers

I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at…

— Brad Paisley

Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and…

— Woody Allen

In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting…

— Anne Waldman

When I'm working, I'm pretty busy with that, but when I'm not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz…

— Alia Shawkat

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on…

— Will Ferrell

“I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how…

— Ben Ratliff

I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it.…

— Pharoah Sanders

When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time.…

— Remi Aubuchon

I was literally the last Jazz player left who played under Coach Sloan - and I always took that as a lot…

— Gordon Hayward

In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who…

— Chris Carmack

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

— David First

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

— Henry Threadgill

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

— Talib Kweli

“Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere.”

— Max Lucado

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

— Alex Horne

I've never been on a board, but I just went on the board for Jazz at Lincoln Center. I'm very happy about…

— Larry Gagosian

I am working on 'Bombay Velvet'. The music for it is jazz from the '60s.

— Amit Trivedi

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

— Ornette Coleman

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

— Danny Barker

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

— Kurt Elling

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not…

— Nina Simone

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

— Count Basie

Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type...

— Harry J. Anslinger

Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.

— Booker Little

Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.

— Peter Watts