Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch. — Pepper Adams
We must be as pure as our music. — Albert Ayler
If people don't like my music now, they will. — Albert Ayler
Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me. — Albert Ayler
I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music. — Albert Ayler
Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost. — Albert Ayler
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and… — Count Basie
Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and… — Paul Bley
Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to be kidding! There's… — Paul Bley
I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York in the late… — Paul Bley
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. — Paul Bley
The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it captured the imagination… — Paul Bley
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. — Anthony Braxton
And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of the young people… — Unknown Author
I strive for honesty in playing what I feel. — Kenny Burrell
[My] style evolved, not changed, but I think evolved as I grew and matured. I don't think there was any kind of change I did… — Kenny Burrell
I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to… — Ornette Coleman
It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was… — Alice Coltrane
...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me… — Alice Coltrane
I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long… — John Coltrane
Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the… — John Coltrane
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked… — Miles Davis
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the… — Miles Davis
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other,… — Miles Davis

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