Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

The way I was singing the songs was jazz — Van Morrison
When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never… — Stan Getz
It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America. — Les Paul
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So… — John Legend
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that… — Max Roach
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect,… — Bobby Seale
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the… — Archie Shepp
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. — Walter Becker
So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country. — Cy Coleman
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. — Mario Vazquez
So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really… — Miroslav Vitous
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official… — Jack Kerouac
Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America. — Jack Kerouac
A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there. — Michael S. Harper
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague… — Charlton Laird
I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. — Black Francis
I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe,… — Joseph Jarman
I did jazz dance for a few years. — Sharon Van Etten
To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10 years that they've… — Misty Copeland
Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now. — Stephanie Mills
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz,… — Steve Winwood
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday.… — Tony Bennett
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny',… — Don Ellis

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