Jazz Quote by Sam Amidon Download Open image “I am a complete jazz nerd.” — Sam Amidon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Nerd
I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever. — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me,… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places. — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have nothing to… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. — Sam Amidon 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
