Jazz Quotes · Page 38

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

— Robert Barry

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.

— Matthew Quick

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's…

— Lionel Hampton

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

— David Antin

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

— Christian Scott

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

— Ornette Coleman

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

— Stan Getz

You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?

— Fats Waller

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If…

— Roberta Smith

You look at somebody like Thurston Moore. Is he a noise dude? A punky dude? Is he a free jazz dude? He's…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as…

— Justin Guarini

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when…

— Donald Miller

Here's our shtick line to describe our music: It's our garage band attempt at our appreciation of jazz improvisation through the reality…

— John Popper

I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for…

— Sun Ra

I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then…

— Miles Teller

The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one…

— Christian Scott

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

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

My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington,…

— Judd Apatow

Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where…

— Haruki Murakami

I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like…

— Steve Winwood

The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.…

— Lester Young

I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.

— John Hughes

We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep…

— Miles Davis

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

— Andre Previn

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

— Michael Angarano

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

“Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.”

— Jazz Feylynn

All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and…

— Donovan

All my life I've played 4/4, 2/4. Jazz has a different time signature. It's a lot harder. It's interesting.

— Marky Ramone

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

— Norah Jones

Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz…

— Robert Glasper

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I…

— Common

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

— Stan Getz

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

— Herbie Hancock

Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this…

— Flying Lotus

I play it Kool, gettin to tour just like a jazz player. Your record player ain't nothin without the funky rhyme sayer.

— Kool G Rap

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

— Pat Metheny