Jazz Quotes · Page 75

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

— Molly Ringwald

He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes…

— Wynton Marsalis

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the…

— Laura Mvula

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

— Bryan Ferry

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

— Damien Chazelle

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and…

— Nick Nurse

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

— Al Jarreau

Always look ahead, but never look back.

— Miles Davis

Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial…

— Randy Sandke

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

— George Benson

To keep creating you have to be about change.

— Miles Davis

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound…

— Joseph Jarman

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with…

— Wynton Marsalis

There comes a time when you've toured a ton, and a time to be inspired again. Listen to awesome jazz records that…

— Kurt Vile

That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul…

— John R. Rickford

I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era…

— Jose James

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

— Miles Davis

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

— Jon Lord

I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of…

— Mark Salling

One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,…

— Gabe Polsky

The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that…

— Deval Patrick

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

— Max Roach

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of…

— Oscar Peterson

You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different.…

— Robert Trujillo