Jazz Quotes · Page 55

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

— Nile Rodgers

Mimi Fox is one of the most exciting contemporary jazz guitarists I've heard.

— Paul Gilbert

All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

— Jack Teagarden

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

— Kamasi Washington

The way I like to cook is to have music going, usually jazz, and something in my hand, usually a glass of…

— Adrienne C. Moore

Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if…

— Wynton Marsalis

Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped…

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

— Doc Childre

I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in…

— Charlie Day

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just…

— Kathy Acker

[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I…

— Freddie Hubbard

It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've…

— Donald Fagen

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with…

— Herbie Hancock

I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the…

— Laura Pausini

A lot of the people that I photograph are master musicians themselves, whether they're singers or great jazz players and it's kind…

— Carol Friedman

For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out…

— Jose James

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have…

— Olivier Messiaen

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I was actually going to work at Tokyo Disney. I thought, 'I'll work in the family!' That was my postgraduate plan. I…

— Sasheer Zamata

Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as…

— Randy Weston

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be…

— Theodor Adorno

When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real…

— Stan Getz

I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find…

— Paul Lynch

Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer,…

— Rachel Vincent

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same…

— Paula Cole

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it…

— Gene Lees

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

— Sarah Vaughan

My favorite music is jazz, actually. It's what I listen to, it's what I was raised on, and it's what I prefer…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

— Herbie Hancock

You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

— Earl Hines

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

— Ken Burns

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

— Van Cliburn

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

— Eric Dolphy

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

— Stan Getz

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

— Molly Ringwald

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

— Edgar Winter

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

— Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

— Lizz Wright

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

— Roy Haynes