Jazz music Quotes · Page 3

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

— John Lewis

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

— Mike Zwerin

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

— Frank Zappa

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

— Jan Hammer

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

— Pat Martino

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

— Charles Mingus

Interaction is what jazz music is all about.

— Stan Getz

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

— Dexter Gordon

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

— Count Basie

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

— Paul Desmond

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

— Due Date

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

— Pat Metheny

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

— Albert Ayler

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'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence…

— Herbie Hancock

I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like…

— Antonia Thomas

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

— Paul Bley

That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and…

— Robert Glasper

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept…

— Bobby Hutcherson

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . .…

— Nina Simone

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

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a…

— Artie Shaw

People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or…

— Gabor Szabo

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and…

— Anais Nin

[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I…

— Freddie Hubbard

Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints…

— Jesse Stone

Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician…

— Chuck Israels

Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your…

— Glenn Ligon

I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and…

— Joshua Bell

When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use…

— Gabor Szabo

And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of…

— Peter Brotzmann

“You’ll get through this. You fear you won’t. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will…

— Max Lucado

...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord…

— Alice Coltrane

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

— Samuel L. Jackson

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

— Paul Desmond

I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

— Kenny Burrell

When you're dead, you're done.

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

— Esperanza Spalding