Jazz Quotes

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

I love my jazz hands!

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

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.

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

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.

I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

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.

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

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

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.

Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't.