Jazz Quotes · Page 86

If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd recommend the pork pie. It…

— Roger Stone

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

— Bob Brookmeyer

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

— Nile Rodgers

Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music.…

— Freddie Hubbard

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with…

— Branford Marsalis

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

— Stan Getz

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

— Dexter Gordon

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni…

— Jill Scott

This is so nice, it must be illegal.

— Fats Waller

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

— Duke Ellington

Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

— Erroll Garner

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby…

— George Shearing

To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence…

— Herbie Hancock

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

— Maisie Williams

I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz…

— Randy Sandke

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike…

— Chico Hamilton

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using…

— Charlie Parker

I grew up a huge Roy Orbison fan. He had such a crazy range. And I grew up listening to old jazz,…

— Borns

I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about…

— Colm Wilkinson

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling…

— Al Jarreau

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

— George Gershwin

The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,…

— Bix Beiderbecke

I love classical jazz.

— SZA