Jazz music Quotes · Page 10

He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes…

— Wynton Marsalis

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the…

— Laura Mvula

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with…

— Wynton Marsalis

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I…

— Douglas Booth

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

— Pete Fountain

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

— Albert Ayler

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk…

— Randy Weston

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul…

— Sarah Vaughan

[My] style evolved, not changed, but I think evolved as I grew and matured. I don't think there was any kind of…

— Kenny Burrell

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there…

— Christian Scott

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter…

— Stan Getz

I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music.…

— John McLaughlin

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

— Albert Ayler

Fusion has been my nemesis.

— Pete La Roca

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

— Roscoe Mitchell

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

— Anonymous

I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten…

— Jon Gordon

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

— Paul Desmond

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

— Thelonious Monk

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

— Jan Hammer

[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I…

— Freddie Hubbard

I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's…

— Pharoah Sanders

The jazz musician’s function is to feel,

— Lennie Tristano

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

— Billy Higgins