Jazz Quotes · Page 83

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's…

— Lionel Hampton

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

— Mark Ronson

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and…

— Meg Ryan

But my dad was a jazz pianist and plays by ear, and all my family are musical. And that bizarrely, is quite…

— Rhod Gilbert

Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz…

— Heather Mac Donald

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

— Billy Higgins

I grew up listening to Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and jazz like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart.…

— Allan Holdsworth

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I…

— Roy Eldridge

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

— Miles Davis

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

— Herbie Hancock

New Orleans is gumbo. You get so man types of things... jazz, folk, Zydeco.

— Luke James

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

— Norman Granz

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

— Ornette Coleman

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator…

— Jelly Roll Morton

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt…

— Nat King Cole

Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with…

— Gloria Estefan

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what…

— Duke Ellington

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam,…

— Oscar Peterson

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped…

— Kelsea Ballerini

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

— Charlie Parker

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

— John Philip Sousa

I have a taste for a lot of different kinds of music... everything, from hip-hop to jazz to R&B to top 40…

— Ray Allen

Dont clap Im not a jazz band for Christs sake.

— Dylan Moran

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

— Karen Black

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

— Christian McBride