Jazz Quote by Nina Simone Download Open image “Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.” — Nina Simone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Jazz Just Life Music Music Way Song Thinking Way Way of life Way of thinking
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people. — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live. — Ray Brown Copy Share Image
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade can be… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist. — Nina Simone 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
