Band Quote by Kurt Elling Download Open image “It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.” — Kurt Elling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Band Jazz Music making Pretty Rare Steady
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz. — Herbie Hancock 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
The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice. — Don Herold 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
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians - we don't listen to our own music for relaxation. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way.… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I don't really have a more intellectualized approach. After the fact, I can sure talk about stuff a lot - but when I make… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get up and… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
A lot of people are put off by the idea of scat singing. Either that or it's something to be made fun of. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
You want to be doing your best work whatever field of the arts you're in because your life's going to be over all too… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency, It is organic with a lot of anticipation and you can hear it, the way it is played. My favorite bands that I love from way back have a lot of things going on and it… — Marco Mendoza Copy Share
My Nirvana experience was much different than the other three guys. For me, it was really new and exciting. I was just a guy… — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is more to me than just having been in the Runaways. And even though I'm really, really proud of what the band accomplished,… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish.… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
