Jazz musician Quotes · Page 2

The jazz musician’s function is to feel,

— Lennie Tristano

My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz musicians are spiritual by nature.

— John Densmore

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

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

— Dave Douglas

Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

— Clark Terry

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

— Dianne Reeves

Iceland is so small; classical musicians play on pop projects and pop musicians play with jazz musicians.

— Laufey

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

— Count Basie

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

— Sheena Iyengar

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

— Van Morrison

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I…

— Douglas Booth

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

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs…

— Patricia Barber

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be…

— Anthony Davis

I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was…

— Robert Trujillo

What makes jazz different is that you can't predict it, it's all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you're…

— Gregory Porter

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big…

— Darryl Pinckney

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

I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a…

— Michael Buble

I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to…

— Pep Guardiola

There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a…

— Kamasi Washington

One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?…

— Chuck Israels

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It…

— Wynton Marsalis

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole…

— Donald Byrd

The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk,…

— Manfred Mann

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

— Alex Horne

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

— Tommy Chong

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

— Joe Pass

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

— Demis Roussos

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

— Jon Stewart

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

— Colin Greenwood

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

— Wes Montgomery

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

— Michael Connelly

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

— David Baker

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

— Charlie Parker

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson