Jazz Quotes · Page 80

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do…

— Ray Charles

Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer,…

— Rachel Vincent

From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected -…

— Allen Ginsberg

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is…

— George Duke

The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is…

— Woody Shaw

I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown.

— Jeffrey Osborne

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of…

— Dave Brubeck

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

— Anonymous

I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten…

— Jon Gordon

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25…

— Ken Burns

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

— Michael S. Harper

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance,…

— Lynn Swann

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

— Ruben Studdard

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

— Paul Desmond

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

— Roy Eldridge

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and…

— Andy Serkis

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock…

— Sara Bareilles

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

— Dave Brubeck

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this…

— Leonard Cohen

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people…

— Edgar Winter

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

— Jan Hammer

I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz…

— Luke James

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

— Francoise Sagan

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

— Frank Zappa