Jazz Quote by Mike Zwerin Download Open image “Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.” — Mike Zwerin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Jazz music Jazz musician Jazz musicians Music Musician Outlaw
I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players. — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes… — Carol Friedman 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 echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We… — Anais Nin Copy Share
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
![“The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.” quote by Duke Ellington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/faf/duke-ellington-7513_association_the-word-jazz-never-lost-its-association_1416186.jpg)
