Jazz musician Quotes · Page 2

Women and rhythm-section first!?

— Jaco Pastorius

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

Jazz musicians are spiritual by nature.

— John Densmore

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

— Jan Vogler

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

— Dianne Reeves

The jazz musician’s function is to feel,

— Lennie Tristano

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz music is the power of now.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Count Basie

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

— Laufey

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

— Trombone Shorty

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

— Clark Terry

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

— Dave Douglas

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound…

— John Waters

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

— Ralph Ellison

Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a…

— Lemmy Kilmister

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

— Eberhard Weber

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

— Trombone Shorty

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had…

— Sonny Rollins

I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or…

— Gaspard Ulliel

I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get…

— Kurt Elling

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

Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may…

— Dave Brubeck

At the end of the day, what are genres? I've spent my whole life trying to fit into some sort of box.…

— Laufey

I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton…

— Cornel West

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

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

— Glenn Ligon

When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

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

— Donald Byrd

“We permit a new future to enter the room with these startling encounters. A young boy from Austin, Texas, Charles Black Jr.,…

— Sarah Lewis

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

— Toots Thielemans

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no…

— Georgie Fame

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

— John Coltrane

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

— Miles Davis

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

— Robert Glasper

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

— Kurt Elling

“You've got to do what you know before you know what you're doing." Duke Madison, Jazz Musician”

— Andy Martello