Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way. — Dave Brubeck
I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from… — Donovan Bailey
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting… — Gary Burton
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll. — Ginger Baker
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. — Ginger Baker
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater. — Laura Benanti
My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them.… — Casey Abrams
You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard. — Casey Abrams
I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. — David Amram
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. — Herb Alpert
I do find modern jazz quite tricky. — Jane Asher
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. — Gary Carter
I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends. — Cathy Freeman
I love jazz music and sad music. — Fred Durst
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the… — Jonathan Frakes
There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go back and just… — Summer Glau
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation. — Jan Garbarek
There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that. — Jan Garbarek
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to… — Chadwick Boseman
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. — Mose Allison
I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz. — Ashley Benson
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not. — Creed Bratton
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They… — Donald Byrd
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when… — Don Ellis
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all… — Haruki Murakami

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