Jazz music Quotes · Page 11

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I…

— Roy Eldridge

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what…

— Duke Ellington

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,…

— Steve Lacy

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with…

— Sonny Rollins

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

— Anthony Braxton

Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music.…

— Freddie Hubbard

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

— Stan Getz

This is so nice, it must be illegal.

— Fats Waller

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

— Duke Ellington

To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz…

— Wynton Marsalis

To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz…

— Randy Sandke

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike…

— Chico Hamilton

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

— Fred Durst

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

— Joe Zawinul

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

— Toots Thielemans

Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may…

— Dave Brubeck

I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed…

— Curtis Fuller

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

— Jelly Roll Morton

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

— Doc Childre

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

— Lil Jon

I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton…

— Cornel West

Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be…

— John Kao

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most…

— Horace Silver

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not…

— Nat Wolff