Jazz Quotes · Page 48

I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown.

— Jeffrey Osborne

“Do not even suggest jazz. I saw Newsies and was traumatized for, like, five years.”

— Richelle Mead

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

— Branford Marsalis

Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.

— Kevin Young

Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music...

— Kurt Rosenwinkel

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

— Chris Carter

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

— Ken Burns

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

— Van Morrison

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost…

— Benny Green

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn…

— Donald Fagen

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world…

— Steve Winwood

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last,…

— Melissa Manchester

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art…

— Gary Giddins

I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz…

— Hamid Drake

There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played…

— Robert Trujillo

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal…

— Yael Naim

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in…

— Edgar Winter

I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the…

— Kieran Hebden

One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,…

— Gabe Polsky

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most…

— Horace Silver

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you…

— Anonymous

I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.…

— Matt Snell

I read some older books when I worked at Barnes And Noble, like some of the American classics. I read a lot…

— Bert Kreischer

I always hope that my music is a gateway for people to get to know jazz.

— Laufey

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

— Renee Fleming

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and…

— Pat Metheny

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

— Deepika Padukone

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

— Freddie Hubbard

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

— Toots Thielemans

To me it would be hard to beat how the Jazz look after Renae and every wife or significant other, and even…

— Joe Ingles

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

— Rita Coolidge

I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it.

— Flying Lotus

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

— Sheena Iyengar

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to…

— Chick Corea

I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel…

— Bart Millard

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

— Ella Fitzgerald

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

— Dianne Reeves

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

— Michelle Obama

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

— Michel Legrand