Jazz Quote by Sonny Rollins Download Open image “Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.” — Sonny Rollins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jazz Jazz and life Jazz music Music Musical Stills Type
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. — Kamasi Washington 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 really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
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
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 is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
...this is my dilemma. I'm a guy who makes things up as I go along, so nothing is ever finished - there are so… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I… — Sonny Rollins 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
