Jazz music Quotes · Page 14

When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.

— Dianne Reeves

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

— Rakim

Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That…

— Wynton Marsalis

“There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution,…

— Gerald Early

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the…

— Cab Calloway

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

— Evan Parker

“We see the old women again. A laugh that is a little too forced and shrill jazz music have made them start.…

— Guy de Maupassant

The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the…

— Don DeLillo

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was…

— John Coltrane

It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that…

— Don Ellis

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

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

— Chico Hamilton

[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

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

— Roscoe Mitchell

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

— Miroslav Vitous

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially…

— Albert Murray

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

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

— Jimmy Page

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

— Maynard Ferguson

Jazz music is the power of now.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Sonny Rollins

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

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

— Matthew Shipp

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an…

— Tony Bennett