Jazz Quote by Marky Ramone

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I…

— Blake Judd

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

— Mahalia Jackson

I like jazz in all the ways that it is played.

— Bill Ward

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

— Keith Jarrett

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

— Ahmet Ertegun

The first time I listened to jazz was when I was 8.

— Hiromi Uehara

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

— Dianne Reeves

What makes jazz different is that you can't predict it, it's all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you're going to…

— Gregory Porter

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

— Donald Fagen

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest,…

— Dave Mustaine

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing…

— Sonny Criss