Jazz Musicians Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

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
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
'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
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
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. — Colin Greenwood
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
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… — Marc Myers
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
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are… — Sonny Rollins
I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in… — Sonny Rollins
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They… — Donald Byrd
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that… — Max Roach
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny',… — Don Ellis

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