Jazz Quotes · Page 94

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

— Duke Robillard

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

— Bill Griffith

Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz…

— Nick Kroll

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

— Brad Mehldau

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

— Brian Eno

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining…

— Evan Parker

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

— Kevin Eubanks

We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam…

— John Petrucci

Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

— Cannonball Adderley

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber…

— Elvis Costello

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

— Sean Wilentz

I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid…

— Eric Burdon

My wife and I went and saw John McLaughlin years ago playing at some club, and it made me feel uncomfortable. It…

— Cliff Williams

My mother grew up strong. She was a charismatic leader among her peers, staging plays, organizing projects, raising money for charity; she…

— Anand Giridharadas

I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic…

— Charles Mingus

I listened to a lot of Amy Winehouse: her albums 'Frank' and 'Back to Black'. She was such an incredible artist. She…

— Daya

[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too.…

— Jon Gordon

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap,…

— Maddie Ziegler

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

— Miles Davis

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

— David First

Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician…

— Chuck Israels

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of…

— Hilary Hahn

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

— Stephanie Mills

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

— Jon Pareles

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that…

— Wes Montgomery