Jazz music Quotes · Page 3

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

— Roy Eldridge

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

— Danny Carey

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

— Nina Simone

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

The jazz musician’s function is to feel,

— Lennie Tristano

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

— Charles Mingus

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

— Miles Davis

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

— Gerry Mulligan

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

— Wes Montgomery

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

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

— Due Date

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

— Paul Desmond

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

— Count Basie

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a…

— Chick Corea

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had…

— Ken Burns

Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do…

— Laufey

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

— Douglas Booth

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on…

— Chad Smith

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people…

— Robert Emerson Coleman

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there…

— Christian Scott

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

The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:…

— Katie Noonan

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had…

— Trevor St. John

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that…

— Van Morrison

But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on…

— Romare Bearden

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard…

— John Coltrane

The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it…

— Paul Bley

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

— Sun Ra

This is so nice, it must be illegal.

— Fats Waller

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

— Anonymous

Fusion has been my nemesis.

— Pete La Roca

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

— Ginger Baker

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

— Henry Van Dyke

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

— Toots Thielemans

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

— Albert Ayler