Embarrassing Quote by Nick Kroll

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

— Robert Glasper

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

— Norah Jones

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many…

— J. J. Johnson

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

— Pat Metheny

I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a suit or…

— Kamasi Washington

Jazz is capable of doing much more than depicting the dope fiend and the drunk and the slinky gal. In our show there are…

— Henry Mancini

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under…

— Thelonious Monk

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

— Miles Davis

Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?

— David Sanborn

Jazzy? Like this?

— Kinzz

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I…

— Mark Gatiss

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.

— Cillian Murphy