Jazz Quotes · Page 45

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

— Anonymous

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

— John Goodman

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

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

— Mitch Kapor

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

— Diana Krall

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

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

— Robert Glasper

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get…

— Wynton Marsalis

I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and…

— Paul Young

Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to…

— Thundercat

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect…

— Henry Rollins

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important…

— Rafael Vinoly

This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck…

— Eddie Condon

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the…

— Jonny Greenwood

Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn't even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit…

— MC Ren

A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a…

— Robert Glasper

[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too.…

— Jon Gordon

What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many…

— Pete La Roca

The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why…

— Gavin Bryars

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals…

— Duke Ellington

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole…

— Donald Byrd

I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely…

— Pat Metheny

“Billie Holiday Her imperfect life led to her becoming a legendary performer with a continuing influence on American music. Born Eleanora Fagan…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

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

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

— Thelonious Monk

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

— Corbin Bleu

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

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 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

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

— Scott Joplin

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

— Baz Luhrmann

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

— Miles Davis

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

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

— Maisie Williams