Jazz music Quotes · Page 10

We must be as pure as our music.

— Albert Ayler

Jazz music is the power of now.

— Wynton Marsalis

Women and rhythm-section first!?

— Jaco Pastorius

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

— Pat Metheny

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

— Paul Bley

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

— Wayne Shorter

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

— Maynard Ferguson

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

— Bobby Hutcherson

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

— Pepper Adams

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

— Chico Hamilton

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

— Miroslav Vitous

Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy…

— Christian McBride

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum,…

— Ahmad Jamal

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in…

— Evan Parker

I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through…

— Andrew Hill

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what…

— Clark Terry

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing…

— Sonny Rollins

[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what…

— Pharoah Sanders

Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly…

— Henry Louis Gates

I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with…

— Abbey Lincoln

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

I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a…

— Nicole Beharie

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may…

— Joe Zawinul

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and…

— Abbey Lincoln