A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound… — John Waters Copy Share Image
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no… — Georgie Fame Copy Share Image
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I… — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds… — Bennie Wallace Copy Share Image
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people… — Robert Emerson Coleman Copy Share Image
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a… — Laufey Copy Share Image
As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's -… — Jose James Copy Share Image
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?… — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more… — Sonny Sharrock Copy Share Image
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs.… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded.… — Joe Sample Copy Share Image
“The sound of the wind stretches its limbs. The jazz music witholds some of its ruckus. Hands move something in the dark.… — Ashur Etwebi Copy Share Image
I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Your restaurant never would have survived in that area. Where it is now, over there in Tremé, is much more suited for… — Farrah Rochon Copy Share Image
...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of… — Peter Brotzmann Copy Share Image
![“It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was so quiet! There was no sound, no practice! He was up there meditating, and when he came down he said, "I have a whole new music!" He said, "There is a new…” quote by Alice Coltrane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/742/alice-coltrane-25252_beautiful_it-was-so-interesting-when-john-coltrane_1177734.jpg)
