Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a… — Steve Lawson
It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices. — Scott Yanow
Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century. — Scott Yanow
When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood.… — Herbie Hancock
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which… — Norman Granz
I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time. — Herbie Hancock
I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or… — Miroslav Vitous
In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically. — Dexter Gordon
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. — Marc Ribot
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time. — Mose Allison
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make… — Tom Verlaine
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing,… — David Amram
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those… — Nile Rodgers
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently.… — Lee Ritenour
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we… — August Wilson
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which… — Miroslav Vitous
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly. — Warren Zevon
Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what… — Sonny Rollins
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal… — Edgar Winter
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but… — Louis Prima
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now,… — Chuck Mangione
I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about… — Sonny Rollins
I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat… — William Bell
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say.… — Ray Brown
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it? — Charlie Watts

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