Jazz Quotes · Page 74

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where…

— Ben Harper

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

— Ernst Gombrich

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz.…

— Harvey Pekar

I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down…

— Paul Smoker

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

— Slash

You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass.

— Russell Malone

“A psychic friend could come in very handy." I reshuffled my cards. "I predict I will," she said.”

— Cath Crowley

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but…

— Idina Menzel

When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening…

— Miriam Makeba

I don't differentiate between country, rock, blues, jazz, it doesn't mean anything to me.

— Everlast

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy,

— Etta James

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era…

— David Copperfield

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;…

— Warren G. Bennis

Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in…

— Russell Simmons

I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines,…

— Al Jarreau

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

— Charles Mingus

There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of…

— Rory Block

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like…

— Haley Reinhart

Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead…

— Ledisi

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by…

— Ralph Ellison

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

— Stephane Grappelli

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

— Artie Shaw

Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most…

— Barry Lyga