Jazz Quotes

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

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.

He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound.

There are a million good tunes.

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

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

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it.

Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz.

Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz fan. Even more than concerts, a lot of my high school time was spent going to jazz clubs in the city.

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.

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.

I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.

I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.