Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

I was exposed to jazz early on. — Mark White
Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue. — Mark White
Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic. — Branford Marsalis
He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them… — Benny Green
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe. — Jim Coleman
Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. — Jim Coleman
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New… — Steve Lacy
I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool. — John Otto
Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality. — John Otto
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction. — Stan Getz
To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G. — Herbie Mann
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues. — John Mayall
I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were… — Bill Bruford
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. — Oscar Peterson
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz. — Lee Konitz
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of… — Max Roach
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was… — Greta Gerwig
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like… — Harry Connick, Jr.
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz. — John Hughes
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far… — Mike Stoller
I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and… — Idina Menzel
I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture… — Joseph Kosinski
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of… — Kiran Ahluwalia
My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but… — Gaspard Ulliel
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank… — Mayer Hawthorne

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