Jazz Quotes · Page 52

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

— Nikita Khrushchev

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

— John Lescroart

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

— Branford Marsalis

The whole thing you're taught in jazz is the spontaneity of it. That's what I really love about jazz.

— Stan Getz

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

— Jess Row

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

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

— Sun Ra

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty…

— Al Jarreau

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if…

— Esperanza Spalding

If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era…

— David Copperfield

When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz…

— George Gershwin

There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're…

— Artie Shaw

When you are busy with all the live shows and bands, world music and jazz music, it takes time to come back…

— Shankar Mahadevan

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that…

— Miles Davis

Jazz was the beginning of rhythm music, which developed into rock and roll. But what the jazz musicians lost because they were…

— Fela Kuti

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel,…

— Wynton Marsalis

Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music…

— Billy Taylor

America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the…

— Anne Waldman

I had an affinity for music and could play anything I heard on the piano, but I wasn't scholastically advanced in any…

— Melody Gardot

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each…

— Russell Lynes

“In America, music was the first sphere of social interaction in which racial barriers were challenged and overturned. And the challenge went…

— Ted Gioia

My dad, was, by trade, he had a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He's a huge, huge jazz fan. He used to travel…

— Eldar Djangirov

I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I…

— Brittany Murphy

Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.

— Steven Wilson

All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of…

— Dexter Gordon

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

— Pat Metheny

I'm very L.A. in that sense, where I'm very into star science and horoscopes and all that jazz.

— Alana Haim

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

— Ken Burns

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

— Anthony Braxton

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

— Corinne Bailey Rae

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

— Lari White

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 have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements…

— Dianne Reeves

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play…

— Charles Mingus

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

— Haruki Murakami

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and…

— Lester Bowie