Jazz Quotes · Page 43

I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of…

— Oscar Peterson

I don't differentiate between country, rock, blues, jazz, it doesn't mean anything to me.

— Everlast

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go…

— Pat Metheny

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

— Joan Baez

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

— Wynton Marsalis

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

— Stan Getz

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

— Warren Zevon

“One two, one two, Type a word or two. Arrow left, arrow right, Keep those fingers nice and tight. Keys up, Keys…

— Jazz Feylynn

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But…

— Kamasi Washington

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical…

— Albert Einstein

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will…

— Ahmet Ertegun

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to…

— Dizzy Gillespie

I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and…

— Kirsten Vangsness

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional…

— Gary Burton

For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Bob Dylan

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear…

— Todd Rundgren

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played…

— Moby

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

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in…

— Haruki Murakami

I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's…

— Terry Teachout

I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so…

— Peter Max

I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion.

— Daveed Diggs

There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "

— Art Blakey

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz…

— Willie Nelson

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

KKJZ is a very famous jazz station and there aren't many more around like them.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

— Joshua Redman

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

— George Shearing

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

— Duke Ellington

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

— Walter Becker

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

— Laura Benanti

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

— Tom Harrell

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

— Aloe Blacc

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

— Freddie Hubbard