Jazz Quotes

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

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.

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

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

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

Dave's playing and repertoire evokes memories of the golden era of Modern Jazz, and in addition to being a nice guy he happens to be a bebopper of the finest order.

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing.

I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

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

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

Jazz to me is a living music.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I listen to soul. I love jazz. I love all types of music.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.

Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it.