Jazz Quotes

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.

I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

I'm a great jazz fan.

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.

The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.

He has only heard what I felt.

Real women don't love the richest guy in the world they love the guy who can make their world the richest.

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.

Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.

Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer

The annihilating strokes slashed across my penned heartfelt words.

A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit.

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.

The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey, created on paper canvas that brought the story to life.

Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb.

Teachers' favorite color ink, splashed and dripped down his face a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising his life.

His eyes never blinked or wavered from mine, encompassing me in a field of control.