Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz,… — Billy Higgins
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. — Billy Higgins
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could… — Robby Krieger
Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what… — Charlie Hunter
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like… — Michael Giles
I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other,… — Don Bluth
The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or… — Mike Gordon
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. — Rita Coolidge
When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened… — Rita Coolidge
You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a… — Pete Fountain
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from… — Benny Green
You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought… — Joseph Jarman
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as… — Charlie Haden
In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I… — Dave Holland
I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself. — Branford Marsalis
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. — Oscar Peterson
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz. — Oscar Peterson
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. — Madeleine Peyroux
I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to. — Anwar Robinson
I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice. — Cassandra Wilson

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