Jazz music Quotes · Page 12

When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real…

— Stan Getz

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

— Christian McBride

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

— Wes Montgomery

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not…

— Nina Simone

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining…

— Evan Parker

I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic…

— Charles Mingus

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

— Miles Davis

Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician…

— Chuck Israels

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

— Gary Bartz

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

— Stan Getz

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

— Sun Ra

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

— Henry Louis Gates

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone…

— Todd Boyd

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

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has…

— Andrew S. Gilbert

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

— Wayne Shorter

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

— Paul Bley

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when…

— Elvin Jones

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

— Nina Simone

Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without…

— Paul Bley

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

— Marian McPartland

If people don't like my music now, they will.

— Albert Ayler

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

— Jack Welpott