Jazz Quote by Jan Vogler Download Open image “Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.” — Jan Vogler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Jazz musician Jazz musicians Music Musicians Nerds Song Way Way Nerds World
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK, they set… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing. — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
I tried to play Piazzolla's 'Grand Tango' at 20 and failed miserably. You need a little experience of life for tango. — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
There was no such thing as a solo career in East Germany. You had to get the best orchestra job that you could. — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the roiling energy and its forceful… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, but I am also always trying to find… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke - but the joke is not so wrong - that after my time in East Germany, I could either afford therapy… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal,… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.' — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
New York is the opposite of East Germany, the crown of individuality. That's why I can work well here and find out what I… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
In Berlin... it's important to present a concert that will change their ears... so if you present a Tchaikovsky symphony, you get almost no… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation. — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
