Jazz Quotes · Page 48

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

— Patrick Stump

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

— Keith Jarrett

“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?”

— Nathan Reese Maher

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

— Pharoah Sanders

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

— Billy Eckstine

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

— Milt Jackson

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

— Charles Mingus

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

— Ray Brown

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even…

— Cyndi Lauper

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin.…

— Bobby McFerrin

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not…

— Carlos Santana

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try…

— Cannonball Adderley

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can…

— Miles Davis

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I…

— Jelly Roll Morton

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants…

— Jimmy Rushing

Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of…

— Bonnie Raitt

As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture…

— Wynton Marsalis

My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I…

— Johnny Griffin

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can…

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of…

— Anonymous

I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten…

— Jon Gordon

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when…

— Donald Miller

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big…

— LeRoy Neiman

We tried to make music that had a very diverse collection of genres - jazz, pop, Latin, even the blues. We tried…

— Philip Bailey

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

— Louis Armstrong

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.

— Debbie Davies

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

— Amy Sedaris

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.

— Merle Haggard

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

— Van Morrison

I like to say I listened to three genres of music growing up: classical, jazz and Taylor Swift.

— Laufey

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

— Nigel Kennedy

Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this…

— Flying Lotus

I play it Kool, gettin to tour just like a jazz player. Your record player ain't nothin without the funky rhyme sayer.

— Kool G Rap

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

— Pat Metheny

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

— Stan Getz

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I…

— Common

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

— Herbie Hancock

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

— Norah Jones

Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz…

— Robert Glasper

All my life I've played 4/4, 2/4. Jazz has a different time signature. It's a lot harder. It's interesting.

— Marky Ramone