Jazz Quotes · Page 79

I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

— Miles Davis

I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music.…

— John McLaughlin

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

— Lou Reed

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

— Dave Liebman

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or…

— George Russell

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

— Apollo Robbins

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

— Alan Vega

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

— Albert Ayler

The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I…

— Rick Moranis

Jazz was my first love.

— Frankie Valli

I think L.A. has one of the most innovative and forward-thinking jazz scenes in the world. New York definitely has the volume…

— Kamasi Washington

“You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records…

— Robert Barry

Fusion has been my nemesis.

— Pete La Roca

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and…

— Eberhard Weber

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

— Andrew S. Gilbert

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

— Ted King

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

— David Sanborn

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their…

— Ken Burns

Everybody in Germany was for the -German cause. But then, after the war ended, when I heard the first Glenn Miller sound…

— Luigi Colani

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical,…

— Nat Wolff

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

— Roscoe Mitchell

There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and…

— Scott Yanow

I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.

— Sonny Rollins

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd…

— Jennifer Grey