Jazz Quotes · Page 44

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

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 is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

— Keith Jarrett

There are three virtuous styles of music; classical, jazz and heavy metal. I do love classical music but I don't listen to…

— Gregor Schwellenbach

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't…

— Dave Brubeck

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and…

— Doc Severinsen

The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks…

— Wendell Pierce

He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed…

— Libba Bray

In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young…

— Irina Bokova

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then…

— Carol Friedman

I started playing sax when I was fourteen because I'm like a real competitive person when it comes to winning girls attention.…

— Masego

The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,…

— Bix Beiderbecke

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music…

— Jaimoe

I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no -…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high…

— Malcolm Cowley

Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called…

— Bix Beiderbecke

It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with…

— Charlie Parker

Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into…

— Sonny Rollins

Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about…

— Vijay Iyer

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

— George Foreman

John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.

— Larry Coryell

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means.

— Gregory Porter

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

— Bennie Wallace

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

— Cassandra Wilson

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap,…

— Maddie Ziegler

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

— Paul Desmond

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

— Hoagy Carmichael

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

— Nat Hentoff

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

— Lee Konitz

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

— George Russell

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

— John Scofield

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

— Robert Pinsky

Intermittently in my concert format, I sing a little jazz, a little scatting.

— Aretha Franklin

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of…

— Wynton Marsalis