Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to… — Pat Metheny
I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and… — Paul Desmond
We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is. — Paul Desmond
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles,… — Dizzy Gillespie
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition. — Dizzy Gillespie
Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom. — Ella Fitzgerald
[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang. — Ella Fitzgerald
Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a… — Wes Montgomery
To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it… — Wes Montgomery
I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from… — Wes Montgomery
A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they… — Wes Montgomery
Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one… — Wes Montgomery
It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it,… — Wes Montgomery
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful. — Charlie Parker
I am the worlds laziest writer. — Oscar Peterson
We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. — Oscar Peterson
I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time… — Oscar Peterson
Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear. — Oscar Peterson
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than… — Artie Shaw
Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you… — Artie Shaw
I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't… — Artie Shaw
Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still… — Eddie Condon
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon. — Eddie Condon
Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic. — Eddie Condon
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why… — Eddie Condon

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