Jazz musician Quotes · Page 6

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not…

— Carlos Santana

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with…

— Herbie Hancock

“In a conversation with the master jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Wynton Marsalis, he told me, “You need to have some…

— Sheena Iyengar

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

— Tony Wilson

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

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

— David Baker

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

— Van Morrison

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by…

— Ralph Ellison

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 really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the…

— Laura Mvula

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Douglas Booth

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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and…

— Eberhard Weber

I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten…

— Jon Gordon

My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the…

— Ian Gillan

I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's…

— Pharoah Sanders

The jazz musician’s function is to feel,

— Lennie Tristano

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,…

— Steve Lacy

When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when…

— Zach Woods

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

— Kurt Elling

If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd recommend the pork pie. It…

— Roger Stone

To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz…

— Wynton Marsalis

To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz…

— Randy Sandke