Jazz Quotes · Page 56

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

— Kieran Hebden

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence…

— Herbie Hancock

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

— Buddy Guy

In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.

— Allan Holdsworth

I get most of my influences from specific genres. I listen to a lot of R&B music, obviously. But, jazz, and bossa…

— Sabrina Claudio

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

— Dianne Reeves

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

— Walter Becker

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he…

— B. B. King

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over…

— Robert Glasper

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

— John Clellon Holmes

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my…

— Amy Winehouse

I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and…

— Ramin Djawadi

I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these…

— Alasdair MacLean

One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I'm so happy they're not calling me Dru anymore. Cause Dru Hill is really four talented guys, and if it wasn't for…

— Sisqo

I don't want to put a name on my music. Other people can put a name on what I do. It's just…

— Hiromi Uehara

It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences…

— Kurt Elling

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or "what you're doing isn't jazz," are just…

— Robert Glasper

I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish…

— Richie Havens

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician…

— Damien Chazelle

Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician…

— Chuck Israels

Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your…

— Glenn Ligon

In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I…

— Toni Morrison

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

— Bob Iger

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.

— Ella Fitzgerald

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me.…

— Reggie Watts

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

— Cannonball Adderley

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all…

— Oscar Peterson

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

— Robert Wyatt

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

— Craig Ferguson

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow…

— Hugh Hefner

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

— Floor Jansen

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

— Zeenat Aman

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

— Alexis De Veaux

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

— Jose James

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

— Miles Davis

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a…

— Ryan Adams