Jazz Quotes · Page 71

and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that…

— Wynton Marsalis

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the…

— Jeff Healey

The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But…

— Van Morrison

Jazz does what it wants to, and so does The Wu.

— Amanda Seales

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the…

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

I always wanted to sing a jazz record.

— Jeffrey Osborne

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

— Nigel Kennedy

I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel…

— Bart Millard

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things,…

— Marc Almond

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and…

— Syd Barrett

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

— Lee Konitz

I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.

— Ashley Benson

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music…

— Robert Greene

It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think…

— Robert Glasper

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to…

— Kenny G

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but…

— Billie Holiday

I love playing jazz because I love the freedom you have to improvise. It has given me a feeling in my classical…

— Julian Bream

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

To be honest, I don't have a particular recipe, but I normally start with the chord progression and then I build it…

— Tom Misch

“Came Honker's trip to Slice City along about then: our sax-man got a neck all full of the sharpest kind of steel.…

— Charles Beaumont

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

— David Sanborn

Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something…

— Miles Davis

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.

— Ella Fitzgerald