Jazz music Quotes · Page 6

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

— Eric Dolphy

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

— Roscoe Mitchell

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

— Pat Metheny

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

— Chico Hamilton

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

— Joe Lovano

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

— Charlie Parker

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

— Miles Kington

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

— John Coltrane

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

— Miles Davis

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it…

— Chico Hamilton

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

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work…

— Sonny Rollins

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

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

— Dianne Reeves

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

— Pete Fountain

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I…

— Roy Eldridge

Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I…

— David Sanborn

It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry…

— Doug Aitken

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

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond…

— Max Roach

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

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike…

— Chico Hamilton

I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you…

— Paul Beatty

I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it.…

— Pharoah Sanders

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

— Gary Bartz

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

— Jelly Roll Morton

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

— Fred Durst

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

— Sarah Vaughan

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

— Bix Beiderbecke

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

— Colin Greenwood

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

— Wes Montgomery

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

— Miroslav Vitous

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

— Stan Getz

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

— Charles Mingus

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

— Pharoah Sanders

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

— Marian McPartland

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with…

— Herbie Hancock

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if…

— Esperanza Spalding

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