Jazz Quotes · Page 47

I have grown up singing Rabindra Sangeet and when I was 16, I started training in jazz.

— Jeet Gannguli

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

— John Philip Sousa

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

— Duke Robillard

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

— Henry Rollins

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

— Victoria Arlen

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

— Al Jourgensen

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

— Ahmad Jamal

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

— Herbie Hancock

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and…

— Eberhard Weber

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of…

— Herbie Hancock

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have…

— Dinah Shore

My mother grew up strong. She was a charismatic leader among her peers, staging plays, organizing projects, raising money for charity; she…

— Anand Giridharadas

There comes a time when you've toured a ton, and a time to be inspired again. Listen to awesome jazz records that…

— Kurt Vile

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she…

— Lady Gaga

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on…

— Sonny Rollins

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality…

— Michael Snow

It's all about respect; he's looking for respect from his buddies. In the last one he just wanted to hang out, to…

— John Leguizamo

People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky.…

— Gene Simmons

“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost memories? Then are we not each…

— Nathan Reese Maher

Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's…

— Jon Gordon

Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan…

— Pete La Roca

Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing…

— Sonny Sharrock

Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor…

— Majora Carter

Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of…

— Aretha Franklin

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

— Jonathan Batiste

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

I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

— Chuck Mangione

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

— Jaco Pastorius

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

— Duke Ellington

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

— Andy Partridge

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

— Christian McBride

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

— Henri Matisse

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

— Henry Threadgill

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 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