Jazz Quotes · Page 31

I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion.

— Daveed Diggs

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

— Dave Brubeck

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new…

— Horace Silver

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

— Maynard Ferguson

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

— Dave Van Ronk

I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

My goal is to bring jazz and classical music to my generation through a more accessible road.

— Laufey

KKJZ is a very famous jazz station and there aren't many more around like them.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband,…

— Kiran Ahluwalia

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin'…

— Betty Carter

Listen well and listen to as much as you can. By that I mean, if you're not into jazz, don't listen to…

— Josh Freese

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 have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered…

— Agnes Obel

A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]…

— Tom Piazza

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record…

— Branford Marsalis

There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

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

— Wynton Marsalis

“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre…

— Jeffrey H. Jackson

Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every…

— John Coltrane

“As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after…

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing…

— Bob Dylan

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played…

— Moby

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear…

— Todd Rundgren

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "

— Art Blakey

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz…

— Willie Nelson

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

— Tom Harrell

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

— Thelonious Monk

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

— Laura Benanti

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

— Freddie Hubbard

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

— Damien Chazelle

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

— Aloe Blacc

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

— Joshua Redman

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

— Walter Becker

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

— Duke Ellington

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

— George Shearing

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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