Jazz Quote by Ryuichi Sakamoto Download Open image “Playing jazz in restaurants is too stereotypical.” — Ryuichi Sakamoto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Restaurants Stereotypical Too
The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing. — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively. — Mulgrew Miller Copy Share Image
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society. — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out. — Walter Becker 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
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
In Japan, there has always been a small number of musicians who have been outspoken on social issues, but they tend to be dismissed… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.' — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I am worried that young Japanese people are not very curious about the outside world - which is so different to the way we… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to do everything… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I think there's a genuine difference between the real and the virtual in music. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
My interests are moving toward both 'sound and music,' not just 'music.' I have been doing lots of field recordings and also collecting lots… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
The global view of cultures is part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano. — Ryuichi Sakamoto 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
