Jazz Quotes · Page 40

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

— Gary Cherone

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

— Bix Beiderbecke

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

— Diana Krall

“Elevators are supposed to smell like urine. That's what make the jazz playing through the overhead speakers sound more authentic.”

— Jarod Kintz

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

— Chet Baker

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

— Hozier

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

— Jo Jones

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

— Stephanie Mills

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of…

— Eddie Condon

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox…

— Bob Brookmeyer

It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into…

— Corey Hawkins

Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like…

— Miller Williams

I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music…

— Zach Anner

“Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of…

— Frank Herbert

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may…

— Joe Zawinul

“History doesn’t start with a tall building and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone…

— Nathan Reese Maher

As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the…

— Nina Simone

The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old,…

— Grace Kelly

If I want to do an orchestral record, if I want to do an acoustic record, if I want to do a…

— Steven Wilson

When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use…

— Gabor Szabo

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to…

— Gillian Flynn

We tried the first evening to go down Division Street and Rush Street, but we couldn't get in anywhere because they didn't…

— Judd Nelson

There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz…

— Alexandre Desplat

“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else…

— Jordan Flaherty

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped…

— Kelsea Ballerini

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

— Miles Davis

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy,

— Etta James

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

— Sun Ra

Everything that I'm doing, it's like a future jazz, future trap house movement.

— Masego

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

— Mel Torme

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

— Dianne Reeves

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now…

— Jeff Beck

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

— Isadora Duncan

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

— Roscoe Mitchell

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of…

— Dave Brubeck

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.

— Kurt Elling

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

— Chuck Mangione

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to…

— Count Basie