Jazz music Quotes · Page 3

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing…

— Helen Merrill

What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that…

— Marc Myers

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

— Danny Carey

I love jazz music and sad music.

— Fred Durst

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

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

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

— Charlie Parker

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

— Sheena Iyengar

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

— Jelly Roll Morton

Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go…

— John Kao

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect…

— Henry Rollins

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

— Matthew Shipp

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes…

— Ornette Coleman

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

— Johnny Griffin

I studied classical and jazz music and went to a music school.

— Hardwell

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

My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds…

— Bennie Wallace

People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky.…

— Gene Simmons

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that…

— Miles Davis

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

— Wes Montgomery

That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and…

— Robert Glasper

Interaction is what jazz music is all about.

— Stan Getz

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

— Thelonious Monk

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I…

— Bobby Vinton

Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you…

— Freddie Hubbard