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Jazz Quotes by Pharoah Sanders
- I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked…
- [John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing…
- He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it.…
- I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it. They play less.…
- I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.
More Jazz Quotes
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker
- And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned… — Steven Adler