Jazz Quotes · Page 8

It's either hip or it ain't.

— Lee Morgan

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

— Charlie Parker

Jazz was my first love.

— Frankie Valli

I followed the Jazz as a kid.

— Shawn Bradley

Always pack your uniform on top.

— Freddie Green

I made the wrong mistakes

— Thelonious Monk

One never knows, do one?

— Fats Waller

When you're dead, you're done.

— Louis Armstrong

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

— Creed Bratton

Dianne Reeves, a famous jazz singer, would be my biggest influence.

— LaChanze

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

— Leo Kottke

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

— Van Morrison

Jazz never ends... it just continues.

— Sonny Rollins

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

— Robert Cray

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

— Mark Pellegrino

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

— Paul Whiteman

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

— Ray Brown

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.

— Debbie Davies

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

— Amy Sedaris

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

— Billy Eckstine

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

— Milt Jackson

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

— Pharoah Sanders

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

— Ornette Coleman

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I…

— Sonny Rollins

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way…

— Tobin Bell

I'm so happy they're not calling me Dru anymore. Cause Dru Hill is really four talented guys, and if it wasn't for…

— Sisqo

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player.…

— Ray Manzarek

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical…

— Anthony Braxton

Once 'A.N.T. Farm' started, I was inspired by Chyna to jazz up my style. Now I paint my nails bright, fun colors…

— China Anne McClain

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the…

— Chuck Mangione

I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food.…

— Soledad O'Brien

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the…

— Chris Carmack

I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a…

— Nick Antosca

Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you…

— Freddie Hubbard

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music…

— Quincy Jones

I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't…

— Harvey Pekar

My dad was a jazz fan and he used to have lots of old 78s, so I grew up with big jazz…

— Ric Sanders

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz…

— Larry Coryell

When I was about seventeen, I had a group called the Young Jazz Giants. We played all originals. When we would finish…

— Kamasi Washington