Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn… — Truman Capote
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like… — Ray Charles
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The worst crime is faking it. — Kurt Cobain
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. — Leonard Cohen
There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the… — Tori Amos
Where words fail, music speaks. — Hans Christian Andersen
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic… — Ian Anderson
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. — Julie Andrews
Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat. — Unknown Author
The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz. — John Lewis
[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it. — Kurt Elling
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come… — Quincy Jones
When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval. — Jeff Beck
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight. — Betty Carter
The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. — Maynard Ferguson
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music. — Maynard Ferguson
I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one. — Glenn Miller
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. — Esperanza Spalding
Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type... — Harry J. Anslinger
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and… — Jonah Lehrer
We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts. — Herbie Hancock
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. — Barbara Januszkiewicz

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