Jazz Quotes
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Jazz Quotes & Sayings
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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
Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.
— Robert Glasper
Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.
— Joe Perry
The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey,created on paper canvas that brought the story to life. — Jazz Feylynn
We must be as pure as our music.
— Albert Ayler
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
— Miroslav Vitous
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
— Martin Scorsese
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.
— Georgie Fame
It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
— Andy Partridge
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
— Pat Metheny
I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.
— Ashley Benson
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
— Isadora Duncan
One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.
— Herbie Hancock
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
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.
— Gunther Schuller
I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.
— Oprah Winfrey
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
— Paul Whiteman
I swear it looked like she wanted her words to slither around us and go out the door unheard.
— Jazz Feylynn
I barely heard her muffled comment of "Yay," but the sarcastic jazz hands were hard to miss.
— Katie McGarry
When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!
— Keith Jarrett
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
— Christina Aguilera
So easy, when you know how.
— Fats Waller
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
— Norman Granz
I love to hear the note sing.
— Joe Sample
If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
— Miles Davis
That's the wonder of jazz, Mary," Johnny explained. "There's no right way and there's no order.
— James Runcie
I never sing a song the same way twice.
— Billie Holiday
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
— Bonnie Raitt
You have to look good.
— Benny Goodman
I would say that jazz is my own language.
— Amy Winehouse
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
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
— Christian Scott
Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
— J.J. Johnson
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
— Norah Jones
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
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He has only heard what I felt.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
— Norman Granz
Maybe that's why the Westmores never allowed any pets. Hard to keep them off the menu.
— Jazz Feylynn
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
People know what they want because they know what other people want.
— Theodor W. Adorno
I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
— Daniel Boulud
A gripper of a read ... Silence revives the cliff's-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory's death.
— Bruce Barcott
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.
— Charles Mingus
And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.
— Wynton Marsalis
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
— Warren Zevon
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
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
— David Antin
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
— Charlie Parker
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
— Gary Burton
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
— Eddie Condon
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.
— Doc Childre
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
Jazz is the music of unemployment.
— Frank Zappa
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[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.
— Stewart Copeland
I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.
— Christian McBride
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
— Esperanza Spalding
I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
— Frank Black
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
— Herbie Hancock
If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.
— George Russell
I'm a great jazz fan.
— Vidal Sassoon
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
— Molly Ringwald
Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
— Alexis De Veaux
And will I like being called a jazz baby? You will love it. — F Scott Fitzgerald
This is so nice, it must be illegal.
— Fats Waller
This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.
— Jazz Feylynn
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
— Nat King Cole
Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.
— Kenny Garrett
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.
— Haruki Murakami
The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.
— Don Herold
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.
— Esperanza Spalding
