Jazz music Quotes

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

— Danny Carey

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

— Duke Ellington

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

— Roy Eldridge

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

— Charlie Parker

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

— John Coltrane

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

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I love jazz music and sad music.

— Fred Durst

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

— Keith Jarrett

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

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

— Matthew Shipp

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

Everytime I listen jazz music I think , this is how LOVE should sound

— Laylablack

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

— Billie Holiday

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

— Miles Davis

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

— Stan Getz

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

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

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

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

If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist…

— Sheena Iyengar

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

Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music.…

— Gabor Szabo

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

Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to…

— Paul Bley

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

If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz…

— Joshua Redman

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

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she…

— Lady Gaga

“Your restaurant never would have survived in that area. Where it is now, over there in Tremé, is much more suited for…

— Farrah Rochon

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later,…

— Wynton Marsalis

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk…

— Randy Weston

I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You…

— Helen Merrill

“We see the old women again. A laugh that is a little too forced and shrill jazz music have made them start.…

— Guy de Maupassant

“The sound of the wind stretches its limbs. The jazz music witholds some of its ruckus. Hands move something in the dark.…

— Ashur Etwebi

He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Joe Sample