Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations. — David First
My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz… — Judd Apatow
My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced… — Judd Apatow
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit. — Robert Fripp
Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's… — Kenny G
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz.… — Kenny G
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. — Jan Garbarek
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but… — Andy Garcia
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think… — Frank Gehry
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. — George Gershwin
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles. — Stan Getz
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. — Dizzy Gillespie
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the… — Maxim Gorky
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But… — Jay Griffiths
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural… — John Coltrane
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. — Harry Connick, Jr.
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra,… — Elvis Costello
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul. — Billy Crystal
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. — Miles Davis
Don't play what's there, play what's not there. — Miles Davis
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. — Miles Davis
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and… — Zooey Deschanel
The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70… — Zooey Deschanel
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. — Isadora Duncan
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. — Fred Durst

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