Jazz Quotes · Page 54

“Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains ”

— John Philip Sousa

Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different.

— Bill Ward

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

— Herbie Hancock

Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.

— Ilaiyaraaja

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington.

— Miles Davis

But sometimes that title 'jazz' can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be.

— Gregory Porter

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

— Count Basie

[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.

— Teddy Wilson

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So…

— Van Morrison

I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good…

— Zutty Singleton

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen…

— Roy Ayers

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the…

— Chuck Mangione

I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food.…

— Soledad O'Brien

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used…

— Bryan Ferry

I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music.…

— John McLaughlin

I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening…

— Lupe Fiasco

I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they…

— Parker J. Palmer

I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical…

— Laufey

I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and…

— Toby Lightman

I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of…

— Charlie Haden

Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks…

— Steve Lawson

My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had,…

— Rakim

I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type…

— Earl Sweatshirt

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

— Phil Woods

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a…

— Artie Shaw

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

— Anonymous

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

— Dexter Gordon

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the…

— James McBride

I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right…

— Chris Rock

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a…

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.

— Ginger Rogers

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

— Lee Konitz

Ome kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma…

— Ella Fitzgerald

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

— Cassandra Wilson

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

— Charlie Rich

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

— Pat Metheny

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

— Dave Brubeck

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

— Andy Summers

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

— Oscar Peterson