Jazz Quotes · Page 43

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

— Artie Shaw

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

— Walter Becker

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.

— Sonny Rollins

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

— Billy Higgins

“A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit.”

— Jazz Feylynn

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

— Norah Jones

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this…

— Leonard Cohen

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or…

— Rufus Wainwright

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances…

— Quincy Jones

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

— Frank Rutter

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk…

— Quincy Jones

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz.…

— Harvey Pekar

I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Growing up, I listened and was influenced by a lot of those around me. I have a big family, and my dad…

— Ella Henderson

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording,…

— Sonny Rollins

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

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

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

I prefer to feel uncomfortable by participating in projects were I am not the specialist. I am always the one who knows…

— Gaspar Claus

My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to…

— Larry Carlton

I worked in reggae, hip-hip, jazz, funk - all the music I used to relate to.

— Mark Morrison

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

— Wynton Marsalis

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and…

— Herbie Hancock

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

— Mose Allison

I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew…

— Steve Miller

My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.

— Rakim

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

— Jelly Roll Morton

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us…

— Herb Alpert

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my…

— Jeff Beck

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

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.

— Amanda Seales

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

— Gerry Mulligan

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

— Pat Metheny

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

— Dave Brubeck

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

— Amit Trivedi