Jazz Music Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Jazz Music

Jazz Music Quotes & Sayings

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Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz. — Alan Vega

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. — Robert Greene

I like to listen to classical music ... I like mainline jazz. — Herb Alpert

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz. — Terry Teachout

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop. — Nicole Richie

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love. — Mahalia Jackson

They call it music, but it's just this side of magic. — Harold Jones

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music. — Wynton Marsalis

We must be as pure as our music. — Albert Ayler

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

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. — Miroslav Vitous

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. — Alvin Lee

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz. — John Eaton

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz. — Rick Derringer

Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear. — Oscar Peterson

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. — Edgar Winter

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light. — Miles Davis

Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere. — Max Lucado

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. — Pat Metheny

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time. — Larry Coryell

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well. — Deepika Padukone

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it. — Denzel Washington

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. — Paul Whiteman

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. — Billy Higgins

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! — Joe Lovano

I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything. — Gustavo Santaolalla

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it. — Louis Armstrong

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy. — John Clellon Holmes

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast. — Paul Desmond

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. — Christina Aguilera

I love jazz music and sad music. — Fred Durst

If you don't know what to play, play nothing. — Miles Davis

Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music ... — Kurt Rosenwinkel

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too. — Kiran Ahluwalia

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. — Henry Van Dyke

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

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. — David Amram

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. — Maynard Ferguson

There's no such thing as a wrong note. — Art Tatum

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style. — Robert Glasper

Jazz will be the classical music of the future. — Dizzy Gillespie

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. — Gary Carter

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from. — Evan Parker

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it. — Dexter Gordon

The grace is being able to like rock music,
symphony music, jazz ...
anything that contains the original energy of
joy. — Charles Bukowski

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through. — Mary Lou Williams

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture. — Tom Harrell

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music. — Jan Hammer

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself. — Cecil Taylor

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. — Archie Shepp

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music. — Dizzy Gillespie

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music. — Percy Heath

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. — Duke Ellington

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music. — Tinashe

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. — Adrian Mitchell

The static's nice. I could do without the screeching."
"Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. — Peter Watts

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. — Stan Getz

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. — Wynton Marsalis

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable. — George Russell

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! — Christian Scott

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity. — Wynton Marsalis

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. — David Bowie

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. — Charles Mingus

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history. — Pat Metheny

He has only heard what I felt. — Zora Neale Hurston

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music. — Reggie Watts

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal. — Esi Edugyan

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. — Herbie Hancock

My music is jazz. — Yusef Lateef

This is so nice, it must be illegal. — Fats Waller

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music. — Kenny Garrett

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. — Esperanza Spalding

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you. — Pat Metheny

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. — Wynton Marsalis

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. — Charlie Parker

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. — Maynard Ferguson

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone. — Laura Mvula

When we stopped in front of it and turned off the engine, we heard music coming from inside - jazz. It sounded sophisticated and lonely. We — Denis Johnson

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity. — Jimmy Heath

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it. — Esperanza Spalding

Composing is improvisation slowed down. — Wayne Shorter

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now. — Pat Martino

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. — Ginger Baker

Jazz is the music of unemployment. — Frank Zappa

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence ... — Pat Metheny

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country. — Al Jourgensen

Fusion has been my nemesis. — Pete La Roca

You can't write music right unless you know how the man that'll play it plays poker. — Duke Ellington

I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time. — Ving Rhames

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes. — Matthew Quick

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. — Steve Lacy

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. — Chris Barber

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. — Pat Metheny

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience. — Lester Bowie

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend. — George Gershwin

If people don't like my music now, they will. — Albert Ayler

Jazz music is the power of now. — Wynton Marsalis

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs — Lenny Breau