Jazz Quotes · Page 37

I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted.

— Dove Cameron

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

— Wyclef Jean

It's so special to hear a room full of thousands of kids who are usually between 15 and 25 screaming along to jazz standards.

— Laufey

I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era…

— Jose James

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

— Ashley McBryde

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

— Bix Beiderbecke

It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own…

— Andre Previn

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is…

— Pat Metheny

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be…

— Elmore Leonard

I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there…

— Glen Campbell

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind…

— Herbie Hancock

There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the…

— Jimmy Page

I really love Dinah Washington and anything live from her - she had some of the greatest jazz musicians in the whole…

— Beth Hart

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional,…

— Chris Ware

As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music…

— Ted Leo

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather…

— Don Ellis

When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about.…

— David Sedaris

One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?…

— Chuck Israels

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what…

— Duke Ellington

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 have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character…

— Frederick Douglass

It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs.…

— Alice Coltrane

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using…

— Charlie Parker

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

— Bob Dylan

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

— Miroslav Vitous

Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as…

— Marty Stuart

You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a…

— Kurt Elling

I listen to Jay Z, some Kanye, and I mix it up - some rock and roll, a little bit of jazz.

— Geno Smith

My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.

— Rudy Gobert

I listen to a lot of oldies stuff. Some Motown, Michael Jackson, jazz, etc.

— Jaime Harrison

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

— Rita Coolidge

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

— Esperanza Spalding

I like jazz but actually I didn't love it enough to study it for four years. It was boring.

— Tom Misch

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't…

— Gregory Porter

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

— Herbie Hancock

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

— Ellis Marsalis, Jr

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz…

— Jeremih

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.

— Robert Altman

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

— Norah Jones