Great Jazz Quotes
Collection of top 31 famous quotes about Great Jazz
Great Jazz Quotes & Sayings
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
— Jack O'Brien
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
— Dave Brubeck
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
— Edgar Winter
My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
— Olly Murs
Being a professional," Julius Erving once said, "is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them."16
— Daniel H. Pink
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
— Henry Rollins
In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.
— Scott Walker
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
— Laura Benanti
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
— Hugh Hefner
So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.
— Stephen W. Thompson
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
— Tom Waits
I'm a great jazz fan.
— Vidal Sassoon
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
— Cab Calloway
During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.
— Geezer Butler
If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.
— Pete Fountain
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
— Marc Ribot
What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music ...
— Lizz Wright
The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.
— David First
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
— Amy Sedaris
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
— Ken Burns
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
— Ritchie Blackmore
I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one.
— Glenn Miller
Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.
— Sheila Ballantyne
I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.
— Al Jarreau
I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.
— Aaron Zigman
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
— Zora Neale Hurston
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.
— Michael Parkinson
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
— Gloria Steinem