Jazz Quote by Gregory Porter

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

— Christina Aguilera

Gospel, soul, jazz, and R&B were what I felt connected to as an artist.

— Raye

Souljazz doesn't reinvent soul, jazz or the fusion thereof, but it plays all of the above with the passion that drove its forefathers.

— Anthony Fantano

I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I…

— Lenny Kravitz

I worked in a band a long time. As we got older, we became more aware of soul and jazz.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make…

— Will Ferrell

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each…

— Miles Davis

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

— Paul Desmond

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

— John Lewis

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

— Esperanza Spalding

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been…

— Jaimoe

I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great…

— Zach Anner

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are…

— Anais Nin

Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of…

— Laufey