Jazz Quotes · Page 76

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

— Kieran Hebden

Music chooses her musicians.

— Patricia Barber

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford…

— Artie Shaw

I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the…

— Dustin Hoffman

Jazz is democracy in music.

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm very fortunate in that my parents are artists. My mom is a brilliant poet... She still is a great visual artist.…

— Ari Aster

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I…

— Douglas Booth

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then…

— Bobby McFerrin

I was working with the computer at university and playing jazz in the daytime, buying west-coast psychedelic and early Kraftwerk records in…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch…

— Ed Speleers

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

— Ted Rall

You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close…

— Gail Ann Dorsey

Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different.

— Bill Ward

All my life I've played 4/4, 2/4. Jazz has a different time signature. It's a lot harder. It's interesting.

— Marky Ramone

My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.

— Borns

Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws,…

— Wanda Landowska

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

— Pete Fountain

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

— Wayne Shorter

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

— Albert Ayler

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school,…

— Mike Tucker

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos…

— Harvey Pekar

I listen to Jay Z, some Kanye, and I mix it up - some rock and roll, a little bit of jazz.

— Geno Smith

[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was…

— Jon Gordon

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell…

— Charles Mingus