Jazz music Quotes · Page 5

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And…

— Louis Armstrong

There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give…

— Andrew Bird

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

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

— Dizzy Gillespie

In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The…

— Archie Shepp

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty…

— Eric San

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

— Sarah Vaughan

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

— John Clellon Holmes

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

— Pat Metheny

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

— Roy Eldridge

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

— Toots Thielemans

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 don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't…

— Paul Smoker

As for what I look for, I don't know any other way to put it, but I look for truth, and honesty,…

— Trevante Rhodes

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

— Andrew Hill

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

— Paul Desmond

I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization:…

— Gerald Early

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

— Jon Stewart

Never play anything the same way twice.

— Louis Armstrong

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita,…

— Hiromi

Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's…

— Alonzo Bodden

I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to…

— Ashley McBryde

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

— Count Basie

It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs.…

— Alice Coltrane