Jazz Musicians Quotes
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Jazz Musicians Quotes & Sayings
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Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.
— Mike Zwerin
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.
— Ishmael Reed
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
— Andre Previn
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.
— Branford Marsalis
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
— Herbie Hancock
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
— Kenneth Rexroth
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have ... This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.
— Henry Louis Gates
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
— Tony Wilson
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
— Gary Burton
Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?
— Peter Capaldi
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.
— Darryl Pinckney
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.
— Artie Shaw
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.
— Tony Bennett
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.
— Gunther Schuller
Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.
— Toots Thielemans
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
— Billy Higgins
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
— Colin Greenwood
Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type ...
— Harry J. Anslinger
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.
— Toots Thielemans