Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz. — Little Louie Vega Copy Share Image
Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her. — Jane Monheit Copy Share Image
I love jeans, T-shirts, and things you can jazz up and down, a bit of a mish-mash. — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.” — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
“Jazz has a strong following in certain circles and there are annual jazz festivals in Puerto Plata and at Casa de Teatro… — Ginnie Bedggood Copy Share Image
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I… — Roy Eldridge Copy Share Image
When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I thought I was actually doing quite well - I was on Jazz FM six days a week. I fancied going to… — Tony Blackburn Copy Share Image
Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find… — Jerry Lee Lewis Copy Share Image
I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. — Marc Ribot Copy Share Image
Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
When I hear the words jazz pianist, that just means I have the skills to do most things. Because to be a… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin'… — Betty Carter Copy Share Image
Listen well and listen to as much as you can. By that I mean, if you're not into jazz, don't listen to… — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband,… — Kiran Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
The truth is hip hop has always complemented jazz and vice versa, but there's always been this communication barrier that exists based… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'... Turn the other way and… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio... But one thing I always noticed about… — Omer Simeon Copy Share Image
I came to Berklee to study guitar, I really wanted to be a jazz guitarist, and I really came because I really… — Juan Luis Guerra Copy Share Image
The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
![“I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.” quote by Roy Eldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f4/roy-eldridge-72700_all-kinds_i-d-listened-to-ornette-coleman-all-kind_2219414.jpg)
![“My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.” quote by Judd Apatow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b6a/judd-apatow-1471_beatnik_my-dad-was-a-big-fan-of-comedy-he-wanted_87831.jpg)
![“In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.” quote by Cecil Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/279/cecil-taylor-20434_art_in-short-coltrane-s-tone-is-beautiful-be_358656.jpg)
