Anything Quote by Floor Jansen

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's…

— Sonny Rollins

I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo.…

— Van Morrison

To most people, jazz-fusion means this dreadful synthetic jazz-rock thing, this jazz-Muzak, which I detest. They also think of jazz as a specific form…

— Allan Holdsworth

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

— Simon Helberg

“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be…

— Dave Hickey

I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

— Van Morrison

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

— Van Morrison

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

— Neil Young

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Rock was getting too complicated, too fused - everything was jazz-rock, country-rock, progressive-rock, this-rock and that-rock, and it was all so bland, so predictable.

— Marky Ramone

Its like if you take acid, it burns out brain cells and they dont regrow. Rock is like that-it has killed beautiful people musically,…

— Marc Bolan

I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician.…

— Kim Gordon