Jazz Quotes · Page 70

I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the…

— Jascha Heifetz

I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres…

— Yuna

"The Hallmark Sessions" is an extraordinary release. Breau plays beautiful chords (sounding a little like Johnny Smith in spots) and inventive single-note…

— Scott Yanow

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just…

— Robert Glasper

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

— Henry Rollins

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

— Alexis De Veaux

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an…

— Nat Wolff

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that…

— Ray Brown

“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else…

— Jordan Flaherty

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all…

— Art Blakey

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

— Don Ellis

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

— John Coltrane

Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really…

— Mary Kingsley

Jazz is what I play for a living.

— Louis Armstrong

I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is…

— Wes Montgomery

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

— Tracy Chapman

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

— Van Morrison

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

— Kurt Elling

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz…

— Bobby Seale

You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.

— Jon Gordon

Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or…

— Charles Mingus

Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

— Bill Milkowski

The people in Japan love jazz music, man, and also in Europe, far more than they ever did here. And that always…

— Milt Jackson

I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

— Dianne Reeves