Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz. — Rick Derringer
I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz. — Elle Fanning
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference. — Georgie Fame
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. — Martin Freeman
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that. — Renee Fleming
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. — Kenny G
I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine. — Kenny G
Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins,… — Kenny G
I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any… — Chad Hugo
I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big… — Charlie Haden
I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less… — Garrett Hedlund
Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach. — Merle Haggard
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues… — Tony Iommi
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I… — Al Jarreau
I have a secret love of jazz. — Carly Rae Jepsen
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz. — Keith Jarrett
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial. — Norah Jones
I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do. — Norah Jones
When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do… — Tom Jones
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age. — Baz Luhrmann
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz. — Baz Luhrmann
In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues. — Robert Cray
I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it. — Michelle Ryan
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument… — Tom Waits
I would say that jazz is my own language. — Amy Winehouse

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