Jazz Quotes · Page 46

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

— Thelonious Monk

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

— Lil Jon

If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.

— Giuseppe Venuti

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

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

— Deborah Moggach

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that…

— Van Morrison

My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and…

— Pharoah Sanders

In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different…

— Caity Lotz

You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by…

— Kurt Elling

A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to…

— Cannonball Adderley

Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie,…

— Lynn Nottage

If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really…

— Kamasi Washington

It's perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn't than what it is: it's not three-minute pop songs, it's not straightforward rock,…

— Gavin Esler

When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of…

— Wynton Marsalis

There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and…

— Harry J. Anslinger

She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and…

— Don Alias

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you…

— Stan Getz

There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be…

— Gregory Porter

The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player…

— Dave Brubeck

I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York,…

— Aretha Franklin

I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about…

— Colm Wilkinson

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

— Michael McKean

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

— Renee Fleming

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

— Norman Granz

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

— Sonny Rollins

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

— Nat Wolff

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

— Dizzy Gillespie

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

— Sean Wilentz

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

— Rachel Stevens

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