Jazz music Quotes · Page 9

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

— Ginger Baker

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

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

— Albert Ayler

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It…

— Art Blakey

I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded.…

— Joe Sample

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

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a…

— Lemmy Kilmister

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

— Gerry Mulligan

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's…

— Roy Haynes

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

— Herbie Hancock

Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot…

— Denny Laine

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's…

— Horace Silver

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an…

— Nat Wolff

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

— John Coltrane

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz…

— Bobby Seale

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

— Charles Mingus

The people in Japan love jazz music, man, and also in Europe, far more than they ever did here. And that always…

— Milt Jackson

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

— Lee Konitz

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

— Anonymous

What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many…

— Pete La Roca

He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and…

— Pharoah Sanders

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

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

— Van Morrison

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

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

— Charles Mingus