Jazz Quotes · Page 98

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back…

— Louis Armstrong

There is no art without intention.

— Duke Ellington

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom.…

— Pat Metheny

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

— Nina Simone

I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen…

— Philip Pullman

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or…

— Yoko Ono

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.

— Robert Altman

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional…

— Eric Hernandez

Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom,…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to…

— John Hench

Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without…

— Paul Bley

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before…

— Miles Teller

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

— Andy Partridge

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as…

— Carla Bley

I wouldn't really call myself a Jazz singer I think it's offending to real Jazz singers to call me a Jazz singer.

— Katie Melua

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

— Marian McPartland

On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content…

— Paul Dano

If I wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, I would be a miserable human being serving pancakes at Denny's. I'm also…

— Miranda Rae Mayo

If people don't like my music now, they will.

— Albert Ayler

I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form,…

— Andrew Bird

I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're…

— Earl Hines

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.…

— King Krule

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

— Gary Lucas

I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes.

— Demis Roussos

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

— Jack Welpott