Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play;… — Roy Ayers
It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what… — Billy Higgins
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. — Branford Marsalis
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the… — Branford Marsalis
It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore. — Branford Marsalis
The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want… — Branford Marsalis
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has… — Todd Boyd
Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed… — Phillip C. Schlechty
If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love. — Mahalia Jackson
To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music. — David
I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay… — Yukimi Nagano
When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in Harlem for a… — Charlie Day
I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!"I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated… — Kamasi Washington
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. — Kamasi Washington
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out… — Kamasi Washington
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all… — John Scofield
I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz. — John Scofield
Player for player, there’s no better working band in jazz than The Cookers. — Andy Gilbert
My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players. — Donald Fagen
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which… — Donald Fagen
In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I… — Woody Shaw
I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a… — Steve Winwood
My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up. — Chaka Khan
I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A… — Debbie Harry

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