Jazz Quotes · Page 44

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

— Damien Chazelle

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

— Aloe Blacc

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

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

— Frank Sinatra Jr

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

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Paul Desmond

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

— Dave Brubeck

When I first played some Coltrane-type stuff on the 'Pimp a Butterfly' sessions, Kendrick got it immediately. 'I want it to sound…

— Kamasi Washington

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a…

— Tim Jackson

The fact that the jazz and classical worlds seem to struggle with the idea of an artist being both commercially successful and…

— Laufey

I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained…

— Phil Woods

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until…

— Kimbra

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are…

— Etta James

I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want…

— Will Ferrell

For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz…

— Steve Miller

People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing…

— Kamasi Washington

I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation…

— Herbie Hancock

I have a taste for a lot of different kinds of music... everything, from hip-hop to jazz to R&B to top 40…

— Ray Allen

You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close…

— Gail Ann Dorsey

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant…

— Pete Seeger

When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening…

— Miriam Makeba

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering…

— Gunther Schuller

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new…

— Horace Silver

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

— Maynard Ferguson

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

— Dave Van Ronk

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

— Johnny Ramone

My goal is to bring jazz and classical music to my generation through a more accessible road.

— Laufey

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

— Stan Getz

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

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

— Pat Metheny

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

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Daveed Diggs

I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B.

— Biz Markie

When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.

— Gregory Porter

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

— Joey Jordison