Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do… — Mose Allison
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing. — Wynton Marsalis
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's… — Chad Smith
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really… — John Corigliano
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not… — Charlie Hunter
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus… — Doc Severinsen
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for… — Robert Wyatt
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and… — Branford Marsalis
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this… — Gunther Schuller
I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence.… — Rita Coolidge
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. — Herb Alpert
If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to… — Kevin Eubanks
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal;… — Bobby McFerrin
I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. — Johnny Ramone
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another… — Alexis Korner
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all. — Esperanza Spalding
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. — Dave Brubeck
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round… — Steve Lacy
My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and… — Haley Reinhart
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is… — Madeleine Peyroux
That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard… — Unknown Author
Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and unassuming men in… — Unknown Author
I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making… — Roy Ayers
I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz. — Unknown Author
In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet. — Unknown Author

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