Jazz Quotes · Page 43

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and…

— Dave Brubeck

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

— Anonymous

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

— Trombone Shorty

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

— John Mayall

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

— Norman Granz

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

— Norman Granz

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

— Eldar Djangirov

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul…

— Sarah Vaughan

Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and…

— Michael Brecker

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining…

— Evan Parker

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean…

— David Bowie

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what…

— Duke Ellington

I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I…

— Wagner Moura

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to…

— Norman Granz

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was…

— Rakim

What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All…

— Steve Wynn

I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600…

— Mac DeMarco

I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each…

— Herbie Hancock

I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really…

— Blythe Danner

People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They…

— Henry Threadgill

I was in school for jazz voice, which is the dumbest way to spend $35,000 a year. I just felt like a…

— Nellie McKay

There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a…

— Kamasi Washington

I was up for parts in 'Charlie's Angels' and 'Three's Company,' but other people got them. At the time I was very…

— Ann Reinking

Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.

— Shirley Horn

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

— Kenny G

Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

— Clark Terry

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

— Jimmy Page

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

— Max Roach

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard

— Bill Bailey

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

— Joshua Redman

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

— Walter Becker

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

— Duke Ellington

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

— Tom Harrell

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

— Thelonious Monk

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

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

— Freddie Hubbard