Jazz Musician Quotes

63 Jazz Musician quotes by 53 unique authors

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
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
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
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
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel. — Wynton Marsalis
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
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
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life. — Kenneth Rexroth
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
'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
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington
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
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
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
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
The jazz musician’s function is to feel, — Lennie Tristano
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. — Colin Greenwood
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
Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! — Toots Thielemans
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
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
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
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
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
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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