Jazz Quotes · Page 78

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through…

— Sonny Rollins

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk…

— Randy Weston

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul…

— Sarah Vaughan

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

— Lee Morgan

Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.

— Robert Glasper

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

— Coleman Hawkins

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

— Milt Jackson

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be…

— Elmore Leonard

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds…

— Miroslav Vitous

[My] style evolved, not changed, but I think evolved as I grew and matured. I don't think there was any kind of…

— Kenny Burrell

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there…

— Christian Scott

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

— Bill Frisell

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording,…

— Sonny Rollins

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

— Dianne Reeves

I'm a jazz guy and a Bruce Springsteen guy. So I wanted something more current, and edgier, and angrier. So I asked…

— Don Winslow

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all,…

— Joe Simon

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

— Mark Pellegrino

When I was 13, 14, 15, I had played in a couple of jazz ensembles. I didn't know anything about harmony, about…

— Jon Gordon

When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light…

— Shorty Rogers

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter…

— Stan Getz

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is…

— Sonny Rollins

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz…

— Willie Nelson

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which…

— Bernie Sanders