Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers… — Ashley Kahn Copy Share Image
“I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,”… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“The structure of a jazz performance is, like that of the New York skyline, a tension of cross-purposes. In jazz at its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to envision the creation of a short story collection as being like putting together a jazz album. Yes, there's logic… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation,… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, sliding… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
Miles Davis, my one and only real hero of my life. I met him [because] every time I had a movie interview,… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I play in a jazz sextet. So I don't have time to do a lot of conventions. The good thing is, when… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The problem we have is that, some people call it 'too rock' to play on a jazz station, and it's 'too jazz'… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
“I don’t know a thing about jazz.” “That’s okay.” He pulled me toward the door and opened it. “You know music. Jazz… — Jessica Martinez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Over the years, the critics have said, 'They never change.' Maybe the little guy's got a new color of school uniform. I… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax… — Trevor Donovan Copy Share Image
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school,… — Mike Tucker Copy Share Image
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want… — Michael Giles Copy Share Image
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I like jazz, and Martin Taylor and his band have it all, including a wonderful saxophonist and very fine accordionist, so you… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance,… — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
![“The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.” quote by Duke Ellington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faf/duke-ellington-7513_association_the-word-jazz-never-lost-its-association_1416186.jpg)
![“This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.” quote by Eddie Condon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/eddie-condon-39026_banjo_this-all-came-of-a-conversation-i-had-wi_1847661.png)
![“Miles Davis, my one and only real hero of my life. I met him [because] every time I had a movie interview, I would shift the conversation to jazz. Miles, when I finally met him, he knew he had a sucker walking in the door. Because his people told him, “This guy plays the trumpet and every freakin’…” quote by Peter Weller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/177/peter-weller-28672_communication_miles-davis-my-one-and-only-real-hero-of_1852895.jpg)
![“I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc6/jon-gordon-1655_band_i-would-sit-in-at-a-jazz-brunch-at-sweet_1147668.png)
