Jazz Quote by Bill Ward

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

— Herbie Hancock

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

— George Gershwin

I play it Kool, gettin to tour just like a jazz player. Your record player ain't nothin without the funky rhyme sayer.

— Kool G Rap

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

— Branford Marsalis

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think…

— Kamasi Washington

I think that drummers have come a long way, but they haven't forgotten players like Gene Krupa, or the other jazz players.

— Bill Ward

All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

— Jack Teagarden

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern…

— Trevor St. John

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

— Louis Armstrong

To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go off to…

— Marshall Allman