Jazz Quote by Benny Green Download Open image “A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.” — Benny Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Jazz musician Music
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. — Gunther Schuller 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 of other… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals. — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing. — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
