Jazz Quotes · Page 96

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone…

— Todd Boyd

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

— Bob Iger

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when…

— Donald Miller

When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending…

— Nile Rodgers

“Then it was horn time. Time for the big solo. Sonny lifted the trumpet - One! Two! - He got it into…

— Charles Beaumont

Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's…

— Teju Cole

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has…

— Andrew S. Gilbert

By the latter part of high school, by the middle of junior year in high school, Jay Rodriguez played me some Irakere…

— Jon Gordon

If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear…

— Albert J. Nock

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is…

— Killer Mike

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the…

— Roberta Flack

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

— Wayne Shorter

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

— Paul Bley

Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's…

— Jon Gordon

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

— Norman Granz

I have grown up singing Rabindra Sangeet and when I was 16, I started training in jazz.

— Jeet Gannguli

I played a gig at the Montreax Jazz Festival once - and on a song called 'It's All Gone,' I had to…

— Chris Rea

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

— Dizzy Gillespie

The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old,…

— Grace Kelly

“The snow is falling like a delicate rain of frozen mist”

— Jazz Feylynn

Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life…

— Gregory Porter

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

— Aloe Blacc

Empire of Deception is a sure thing--a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has…

— Jonathan Eig

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.

— J. J. Johnson