Jazz Quotes · Page 9

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music…

— Serj Tankian

Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I…

— David Sanborn

The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely…

— Al Kooper

I suppose I am more comfortable with jazz because I have been playing it that much longer, and also because classical music…

— Adnan Sami

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

— Daniel Boulud

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

— Robert Glasper

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

— Henry Van Dyke

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to…

— Chick Corea

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

— Michael Angarano

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements…

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

— Louis Armstrong

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

— Herbie Hancock

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

— Duke Ellington

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

— Harry James

“Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven”

— James Ellroy

In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I…

— Toni Morrison

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to…

— Billy Joel

I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey…

— Freddie Hubbard

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

— Stan Getz

A dancer is a dancer. If I can do jazz, then I can also do modern jazz, break and Hindi dance also.…

— Arshad Warsi

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it.…

— Stan Getz

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in…

— Haruki Murakami

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz…

— Dee Dee Bridgewater

That was something we were trying to figure out: Are we allowed to do a jazz song? Are we allowed to do…

— Ryan Ross