Jazz musician Quotes · Page 3

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

— David Steinberg

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

— David Baker

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

— Michael Connelly

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

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

— Doc Childre

I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.

— Tony Bennett

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

— Miles Kington

Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift…

— George Carlin

If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz…

— Joshua Redman

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that…

— Van Morrison

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then…

— Carol Friedman

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

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work…

— Sonny Rollins

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And…

— Louis Armstrong

But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about…

— Wynton Marsalis

I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to…

— John Polson

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

— Katie Noonan

“I was enraptured by Elaine’s tales about Billie and all the other famous jazz musicians she had known. For instance, she told…

— Jenifer Lewis

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

— Molly Ringwald

I really thought I was gonna have a straight gig. But these jazz musicians put their arms around me time and again…

— Kurt Elling

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

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's…

— Pat Metheny

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

— Benny Green

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

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

— Miles Davis

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

— Jack Welpott

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

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Demis Roussos

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

— Alex Horne

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

— Flea

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

— Jon Stewart

“It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.”

— Ted Agon

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

— Andy Richter

“If my name were Nubby Blues, I wouldn't be a jazz musician, I'd be a disabled Vietnam vet on welfare.”

— Jarod Kintz

If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist…

— Sheena Iyengar