Jazz music Quotes · Page 2

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

— Samuel L. Jackson

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

— Paul Desmond

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

— Art Blakey

Never play anything the same way twice.

— Louis Armstrong

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

— Louis Armstrong

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

— Danny Carey

I love jazz music and sad music.

— Fred Durst

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

— Sun Ra

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the…

— Harry Connick, Jr

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

— Duke Ellington

Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.

— Charles Mingus

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

— Albert Ayler

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

— Count Basie

Nothin' he loved more than jazz music and womens titties. -Ethan Tremblay

— Due Date

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

— Douglas Booth

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I…

— Ahmad Jamal

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,…

— John Lewis

People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as…

— George Benson

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently…

— Miles Davis

I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey…

— Freddie Hubbard

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs…

— Patricia Barber

I've never aspired to make 'jazz music,' I simply aspired to make music that was in a word, self-soothing and relevant to…

— Melody Gardot

But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about…

— Wynton Marsalis

I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I…

— Jackie McLean

I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a…

— Michael Buble

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been…

— Sonny Rollins

One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?…

— Chuck Israels

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be…

— Anthony Davis

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz…

— Wynton Marsalis

I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more…

— Sonny Sharrock

“Your restaurant never would have survived in that area. Where it is now, over there in Tremé, is much more suited for…

— Farrah Rochon

...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord…

— Alice Coltrane

“You’ll get through this. You fear you won’t. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will…

— Max Lucado

And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of…

— Peter Brotzmann

Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating…

— Josh Linkner

For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting…

— Astrud Gilberto

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no…

— Thelonious Monk

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

— Roy Eldridge