Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. — Unknown Author
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. — Sonny Rollins
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. — Sonny Rollins
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it. — Horace Silver
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. — Nina Simone
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. — John Philip Sousa
Jazz is America's classical music. — Billy Taylor
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. — Toots Thielemans
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. — Paul Whiteman
Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind. — Mary Lou Williams
I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice. — Cassandra Wilson
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist. — Cassandra Wilson
Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere. — Unknown Author
One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you? — Bix Beiderbecke
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group… — Greg Thomas
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life. — Lester Bowie
Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles. — Unknown Author
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music. — Percy Heath
Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now. — Pat Martino
Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty. — Max Roach
Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture. — Tom Harrell
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society. — Tom Harrell
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes… — Cyndi Lauper
I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I… — Natalie MacMaster
I do like classical music, and soft rock, and jazz, which I never listened to when I was 15. Now I like it. The older… — Dmitry Medvedev

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