Jazz Quotes · Page 59

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a…

— Travis Scott

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

— Jaco Pastorius

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray…

— Natalie MacMaster

As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come…

— Trombone Shorty

Outside India, Chris Brown, Bruno Mars, Beyonce, and Rihanna are my favourites. I also like Justin Bieber. I like Western jazz and…

— Armaan Malik

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin.…

— Bobby McFerrin

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is…

— Jimmy Heath

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a…

— Ryan Adams

Jazz to me is a living music.

— Dexter Gordon

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.

— Billy Higgins

I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B.

— Biz Markie

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

— Pat Metheny

I like to hear the brass vibrate in the sound, not the reed. I like a dark sound, which is contrary to…

— Stan Getz

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

— Norman Granz

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

— Alex Horne

In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that…

— Manfred Mann

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

— Kenny G

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz…

— Artie Shaw

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

— Jane Asher

“T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a…

— Saira Viola

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily…

— Lee Ritenour

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have…

— Rita Coolidge

Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you…

— James Frain

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect…

— Branford Marsalis

When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of…

— Hamid Drake