Jazz Quotes · Page 41

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

— Ahmad Jamal

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

— Robert Glasper

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

— Milt Jackson

You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass.

— Russell Malone

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

— Patricia Barber

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

— Susan Rice

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

— George Gershwin

For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because…

— Lizz Wright

I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of…

— Kim Gordon

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated,…

— Tori Amos

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a…

— Travis Scott

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty…

— Eric San

That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if…

— Charlie Haden

There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give…

— Andrew Bird

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man…

— Leo Tolstoy

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music…

— Chadwick Boseman

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little…

— Peggy Guggenheim

But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about…

— Wynton Marsalis

I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I…

— Jackie McLean

“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest…

— Jazz Feylynn

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos…

— Harvey Pekar

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys…

— Michael Franti

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of…

— Harvey Pekar

I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

— King Krule

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big…

— Darryl Pinckney

I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.

— Daya

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I…

— Ahmad Jamal

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

— Corbin Bleu

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

— Baz Luhrmann

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

— Scott Joplin

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

— Miles Davis

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's…

— Billy Crystal

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

— Scott Henderson

I'm constantly thinking about classical and jazz, how to properly preserve them and pay homage.

— Laufey

I hope I'm doing my part in making jazz and classical music more accessible!

— Laufey

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

— Maisie Williams

Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.

— Louie Bellson

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

— George Benson