Jazz Quotes · Page 42

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a…

— Jon Gordon

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

— Nat Wolff

I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His…

— Keith Jarrett

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

— Bennie Wallace

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

— Lester Bowie

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

— Rita Coolidge

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her…

— Jill Scott

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

— Chris Carter

As a singer, I've been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don't belong in any category, male or female, pop or…

— Jimmy Scott

What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean…

— Ishmael Reed

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

— Billy Higgins

You would be surprised how many people that are very passionate about classical music are deeply involved in Hip Hop. You would…

— Thomas Hampson

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

— Herbie Mann

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

— Miles Davis

I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin…

— Harry Dean Stanton

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that…

— Damien Chazelle

Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and…

— Frank Rutter

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

— Herbie Hancock

I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to…

— Ashley McBryde

I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want…

— Will Ferrell

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

— Count Basie

“Billie Holiday Her imperfect life led to her becoming a legendary performer with a continuing influence on American music. Born Eleanora Fagan…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

The bandstand is a sacred place.

— Wynton Marsalis

There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played…

— Robert Trujillo