I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" -… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant.… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky.… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing… — Sonny Sharrock Copy Share Image
If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty… — Eric San Copy Share Image
There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul… — Sarah Vaughan Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may… — Joe Zawinul Copy Share Image
Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go… — John Kao Copy Share Image
I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita,… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed… — Curtis Fuller Copy Share Image
I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of… — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music.… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that… — Marc Myers Copy Share Image
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat. — Rakim Copy Share Image
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum,… — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has… — Andrew S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
![“[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of the things he told me he loved about my voice was how I used space-both in music and between my voice and the mike.” quote by Helen Merrill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d14/helen-merrill-83326_brilliant_miles-davis-learned-from-everyone-he-was_3158989.jpg)
