Jazz Quotes · Page 99

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

— Miles Davis

My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.

— Rudy Gobert

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if…

— Esperanza Spalding

I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but…

— Simon Helberg

As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture…

— Wynton Marsalis

I don't want to put a name on my music. Other people can put a name on what I do. It's just…

— Hiromi Uehara

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

— Boz Scaggs

I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

— Ophelia Lovibond

My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games…

— Dianne Reeves

I'm into scales right now.

— John Coltrane

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies…

— Aberjhani

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

— Charles Mingus

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it…

— Chico Hamilton

I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented…

— Ashley Kahn

But sometimes that title 'jazz' can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be.

— Gregory Porter

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to…

— Lee Ritenour

When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and…

— Jillian Rose Reed

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

— Ahmad Jamal

Big band music, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the lyrics are really sweet, and they're just really…

— John Tesh

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn…

— Donald Fagen

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

— Ellis Marsalis, Jr

I am working on 'Bombay Velvet'. The music for it is jazz from the '60s.

— Amit Trivedi

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

— David Amram

I've sung a whole lot of jazz. It's my favorite style of music to sing. People don't realize it, because they're so…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

— Jan Garbarek