Jazz music Quotes · Page 5

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

— Albert Ayler

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

— Toots Thielemans

We must be as pure as our music.

— Albert Ayler

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

— Henry Van Dyke

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

— Ginger Baker

Fusion has been my nemesis.

— Pete La Roca

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

— Pat Metheny

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

— Sun Ra

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

— Wynton Marsalis

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

— Thelonious Monk

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

— Miles Kington

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

— Charlie Parker

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

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a…

— Chick Corea

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

— Jimmy Page

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter…

— Stan Getz

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

— Denny Laine

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not…

— Nat Wolff

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

People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as…

— George Benson

I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.…

— Matt Snell

The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:…

— Katie Noonan

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing…

— Helen Merrill

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there…

— Christian Scott

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz…

— Molly Ringwald

Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel…

— Brian Regan

There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's -…

— Jose James

My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds…

— Bennie Wallace

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

— Joe Lovano

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

— Chico Hamilton

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

— Pat Metheny

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

— Roscoe Mitchell

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

— Eric Dolphy

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

— Doc Childre

This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel.

— Gregory Porter

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

— Roy Haynes

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

— Toots Thielemans

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

— Marc Ribot