Jazz Quotes · Page 50

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

— Rita Coolidge

I listen to a lot of oldies stuff. Some Motown, Michael Jackson, jazz, etc.

— Jaime Harrison

My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.

— Rudy Gobert

I listen to Jay Z, some Kanye, and I mix it up - some rock and roll, a little bit of jazz.

— Geno Smith

It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own…

— Andre Previn

You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a…

— Kurt Elling

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

— Miroslav Vitous

Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as…

— Marty Stuart

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept…

— Bobby Hutcherson

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of…

— Bernie Sanders

And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about…

— Larry Coryell

I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in…

— Tracy Chapman

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it…

— Miles Davis

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony…

— Charles Mingus

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk…

— Fantasia Barrino

Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest…

— Ellis Marsalis, Jr

Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and…

— Allen Ginsberg

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out,…

— Tim Minchin

The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace…

— Cecil Williams

I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records…

— Robert Barry

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz…

— Larry Coryell

My dad was a jazz fan and he used to have lots of old 78s, so I grew up with big jazz…

— Ric Sanders

I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me is it…

— Charlie Haden

When I was about seventeen, I had a group called the Young Jazz Giants. We played all originals. When we would finish…

— Kamasi Washington

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is…

— Pat Metheny

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

— Ashley McBryde

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

— Bix Beiderbecke

It's so special to hear a room full of thousands of kids who are usually between 15 and 25 screaming along to jazz standards.

— Laufey

I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era…

— Jose James

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

— Wyclef Jean

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

— Jaco Pastorius

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

— Karen Black

I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted.

— Dove Cameron

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that…

— J. J. Johnson

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

— Wes Montgomery

I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

— Miles Davis

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

— Colin Greenwood

When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.

— Billie Holiday

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

— Wynton Marsalis

We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.

— Paul Desmond