Jazz Quotes · Page 42

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

— Lee Konitz

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get…

— Yukimi Nagano

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

— Dexter Gordon

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

— Mitch Kapor

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

— Bill Frisell

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

— Glenn Miller

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

— Branford Marsalis

When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending…

— Nile Rodgers

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was…

— Hugh Hefner

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only…

— Billy Higgins

I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to…

— Isla Fisher

I like soul, I like rock, I like new wave, I like punk music, I like blues, I like jazz, and I…

— DJ Premier

Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that…

— Sam Smith

Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he…

— Lilian Thuram

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people…

— Edgar Winter

I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to…

— Pep Guardiola

'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and…

— Dave Douglas

There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high…

— Jon Gordon

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all,…

— Joe Simon

I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They…

— Christian McBride

Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of…

— Joanna Kulig

Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,…

— Wynton Marsalis

I definitely get my artistry and my vocal talent from my mother and mother's side. She sang in a jazz trio band…

— Zella Day

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

— Robert Glasper

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

— Diana Krall

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

— Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

— Matthew Shipp

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait…

— Sun Ra

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get…

— Nicole Richie

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

— Norah Jones

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

— Edgar Winter

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

— Robert Fripp

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that…

— Pat Metheny

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

— Jelly Roll Morton

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

— Barry Lyga

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

— Emily VanCamp

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of…

— Steve Lacy

People forget that the same man who did 'Star 80' and 'All that Jazz' also did 'Pardon Me Miss But I've Never…

— Ann Reinking

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

— Paul Desmond