Jazz Quotes · Page 50

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

— Keke Palmer

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

— Natalia Vodianova

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

— Kurt Elling

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

— Sun Ra

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before…

— Miles Teller

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

— Anais Nin

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

— Jon Gordon

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis,…

— Peter Weller

“Jazz tells Lucy to relax and tries to kick her under the table. I know this because she kicks me instead. "Aim…

— Cath Crowley

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record…

— Tom Verlaine

I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians…

— Kurt Elling

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to…

— Kenny G

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first…

— Artie Shaw

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the…

— Duke Ellington

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within…

— Julio Cortazar

I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I…

— Gordon Raphael

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk…

— Randy Weston

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are…

— Jamie Cullum

When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by…

— Frankie Valli

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music…

— Scotty Moore

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had…

— Trevor St. John

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the…

— Herbie Hancock

When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead…

— Christian McBride

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a…

— Gloria Gaynor

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

— Dizzy Gillespie

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular…

— Larry Coryell

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

— Dave Liebman

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the…

— Roberta Flack

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

— Ahmet Ertegun

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

— Emilia Clarke

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

— Bob Brookmeyer

“A psychic friend could come in very handy." I reshuffled my cards. "I predict I will," she said.”

— Cath Crowley

We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.

— Walter Becker

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

— Miles Davis

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

— Ornette Coleman

Bibidy, bom bi bom, mek, jazz go mad. Bibidy, bom bi bom, mek, house go mad.

— Reel 2 Real

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

— Patti Page

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

— Gary Carter

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go…

— Robert Greene