Jazz Quotes · Page 5

I did jazz dance for a few years.

— Sharon Van Etten

I'm a great jazz fan.

— Vidal Sassoon

Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

— Thelonious Monk

I'm into scales right now.

— John Coltrane

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

— Louis Armstrong

I love jazz music and sad music.

— Fred Durst

I've always loved jazz.

— Rita Coolidge

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

— Norman Granz

A goal is a dream with a finish line.

— Duke Ellington

If people don't like my music now, they will.

— Albert Ayler

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

— Wayne Shorter

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

— Albert Ayler

Never lose the groove to find a note.

— Victor Wooten

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

— Dexter Gordon

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

— Lester Bowie

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

— Miles Davis

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

— Gary Bartz

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

— Jess Row

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I…

— Flea

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

— John Coltrane

Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal,…

— Geezer Butler

I studied jazz in college. I studied music history, and I have a degree in music engineering.

— Lari White

I worked in a band a long time. As we got older, we became more aware of soul and jazz.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school,…

— Mike Tucker

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a…

— Jon Gordon

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together.…

— Wynton Marsalis

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want…

— Michael Giles

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,…

— Travis Barker

Over the years, the critics have said, 'They never change.' Maybe the little guy's got a new color of school uniform. I…

— Angus Young

One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax…

— Trevor Donovan

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually…

— Branford Marsalis

It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi…

— Melina Marchetta

Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in…

— Russell Simmons

We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done…

— George Benson

You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration…

— Wes Montgomery

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

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