Jazz Quotes · Page 3

I was exposed to jazz early on.

— Mark White

So easy, when you know how.

— Fats Waller

Jazz is democracy in music.

— Wynton Marsalis

It's either hip or it ain't.

— Lee Morgan

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

— Charlie Parker

Jazz was my first love.

— Frankie Valli

I followed the Jazz as a kid.

— Shawn Bradley

Always pack your uniform on top.

— Freddie Green

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

— Langston Hughes

I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

— Dave Brubeck

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

— Ella Fitzgerald

I always wanted to sing a jazz record.

— Jeffrey Osborne

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

— Steve Lacy

If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

— Eddie Harris

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

— Clint Eastwood

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

— Ray Brown

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

— Jerry Hall

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

— Gary Burton

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music…

— Robert Trujillo

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

— Billie Holiday

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

— Artie Shaw

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing…

— Tony Bennett

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

— Max De Pree

“Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.”

— Fiston Mwanza Mujila

When I hear the words jazz pianist, that just means I have the skills to do most things. Because to be a…

— Robert Glasper

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby…

— George Shearing

People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it.…

— Mark Knopfler

As a child brought up in Paris, I dreamed of America, that lost world my parents had left behind - it was…

— Alexandre Desplat

We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come…

— Elisabeth Moss

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it…

— Chico Hamilton

Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially…

— King Krule

You know, another jazz drummer, Ed Thigpen, who played with Oscar Peterson way back - it was the first time I ever…

— John Densmore

I have a respect for Elvis and my friendship. It ain't my business what he did in private. The only thing I…

— Sammy Davis, Jr

I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it…

— Terry Teachout

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over…

— Madonna Ciccone

The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it…

— Paul Bley

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily…

— Lee Ritenour

Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to…

— Paul Bley

I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they…

— Parker J. Palmer