Jazz Musician Quotes
63 Jazz Musician quotes by 53 unique authors
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
— Louis Armstrong
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The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.
— Dave Brubeck
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If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz is a music…
— Joshua Redman
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I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I…
— Gaspard Ulliel
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The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
— Wynton Marsalis
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A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis,…
— Charlie Trotter
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People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your…
— George Benson
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I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
— Kenneth Rexroth
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I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My…
— Anthony Braxton
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'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in…
— Artie Shaw
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Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.
— Miles Kington
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Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and…
— Paul Bley
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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…
— Pharoah Sanders
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Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's responsibility…
— Gabor Szabo
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Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force,…
— Evan Parker
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The jazz musician’s function is to feel,
— Lennie Tristano
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Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
— Colin Greenwood
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But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value,…
— Wynton Marsalis
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Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
— Toots Thielemans
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You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in…
— Sonny Rollins
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We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's…
— Chad Smith
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One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and…
— Branford Marsalis
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A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round…
— Steve Lacy
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What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy…
— Unknown Author
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The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't…
— Katie Noonan
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