Jazz Quotes · Page 87

I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in…

— Edgar Winter

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on…

— Dave Mustaine

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If…

— Roberta Smith

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

— Dexter Gordon

I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.

— Julius Hemphill

I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK,…

— Dianne Reeves

Don't bullshit' just play.

— Wynton Marsalis

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools…

— Peter Erskine

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have…

— Paul Provenza

Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of…

— Bonnie Raitt

The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just…

— Van Morrison

It started so early, it all runs together. But what made a huge impact on me was when I went to Europe…

— Chris Thomas King

The first time I listened to jazz was when I was 8.

— Hiromi Uehara

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

— Andrew Bird

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

— Wynton Marsalis

I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

— George Shearing

The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me.…

— Pat Metheny

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies…

— Sayyid Qutb

Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was…

— India Arie

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the…

— Jonny Greenwood

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

When my father saw that I was interested in following such a career he had many reservations. His feeling was that there…

— Julian Bream