Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. — Steve Lacy
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate… — Wynton Marsalis
If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz. — Ray Manzarek
I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I… — Ray Manzarek
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy… — Wynton Marsalis
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get… — Wynton Marsalis
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. — Wynton Marsalis
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. — Wynton Marsalis
There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. — Wynton Marsalis
I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money.… — Wynton Marsalis
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about… — Wynton Marsalis
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it.… — Wynton Marsalis
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in… — Wynton Marsalis
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly… — Wynton Marsalis
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. — Steve Martin
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. — Abraham Maslow
Jazz is rhythm and meaning. — Henri Matisse
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice.… — Brian McKnight
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the… — John McLaughlin
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. — Pat Metheny
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop… — Unknown Author
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a… — Unknown Author
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. — Van Morrison

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