Jazz Quotes · Page 9

“God's timing is like Jazz.”

— Anonymous

We must be as pure as our music.

— Albert Ayler

Fusion has been my nemesis.

— Pete La Roca

I love my jazz hands!

— David Dickinson

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

— Duke Ellington

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

— Baz Luhrmann

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...

— Thelonious Monk

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

— Philip Levine

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

— Lauren Daigle

Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.

— Clark Terry

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

— Clark Terry

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

— Ahmet Ertegun

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

— Cath Crowley

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

— Bob Brookmeyer

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

— Emilia Clarke

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

— Miles Davis

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 never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

— Lemmy

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

— Dizzy Gillespie

In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and…

— Clint Eastwood

People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but…

— Elvis Costello

There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one…

— Gary Burton

We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed…

— Jason Silva

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away…

— Dizzy Gillespie

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always…

— Tom Jones

Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz.…

— Mike Birbiglia

The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture…

— R.J. Rushdoony

My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that…

— Wynton Marsalis

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him.…

— Ted King

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist.…

— Richie Havens

As more people get into indie bands and alternative music, they're also getting more into other genres that fit those categories, like…

— Hilary Hahn

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get…

— Wynton Marsalis

He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes…

— Wynton Marsalis

All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different…

— Michael Jackson

“Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.”

— Louis Armstrong

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

— Wynton Marsalis

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

— George Gershwin

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

— Dizzy Gillespie