Quotes about Jazz

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. Votes: 6

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny. Votes: 4

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud. Votes: 4

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. Votes: 4

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. Votes: 4

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. Votes: 4

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. Votes: 4

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. Votes: 4

Jazz is my adventure. Votes: 3

Jazz stands for freedom. Votes: 3

Jazz is democracy in music. Votes: 3

Jazz is not background music. Votes: 3

Jazz is America's classical music. Votes: 3

Jazz is rhythm and meaning. Votes: 3

Jazz was my first love. Votes: 3

God's timing is like Jazz. Votes: 3

Jazz is the music of unemployment. Votes: 3

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Votes: 3

Jazz never ends... it just continues. Votes: 3

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. Votes: 3

Jazz is about being in the moment. Votes: 3

Jazz was uplifted by what I did. Votes: 3

Jazz is the music of the body. Votes: 3

Jazz music is the power of now. Votes: 3

Jazz is freedom. You think about that. Votes: 3

Jazz to me is a living music. Votes: 3

Jazz is the language of the emotions. Votes: 3

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. Votes: 3

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom. Votes: 3

Jazz is what I play for a living. Votes: 3

Jazz music is a language of the emotions. Votes: 3

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music. Votes: 3

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. Votes: 3

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. Votes: 3

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it. Votes: 3

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere. Votes: 3

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now. Votes: 3

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. Votes: 3

Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art, Votes: 3

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food. Votes: 3

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. Votes: 3

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries. Votes: 3

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. Votes: 3

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life. Votes: 3

Jazz will be the classical music of the future. Votes: 3

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms. Votes: 3

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me. Votes: 3

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin! Votes: 3

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. Votes: 3

Jazz groups have to make a living any way. Votes: 3

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz. Votes: 3

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor. Votes: 3

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. Votes: 3

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself. Votes: 3

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. Votes: 3

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. Votes: 3

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will. Votes: 3

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz. Votes: 3

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it. Votes: 3

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand. Votes: 3

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances. Votes: 3

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one. Votes: 3

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around. Votes: 3

Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time! Votes: 3

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America. Votes: 3

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman. Votes: 3

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for. Votes: 3

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. Votes: 3

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. Votes: 3

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. Votes: 3

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition? Votes: 3

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles. Votes: 3

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. Votes: 3

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. Votes: 3

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. Votes: 3

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music. Votes: 3

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music. Votes: 3

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Votes: 3

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live. Votes: 3

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks. Votes: 3

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs Votes: 3

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz. Votes: 3

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll. Votes: 3

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable. Votes: 3

Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form. Votes: 3

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life. Votes: 3

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz. Votes: 3

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals. Votes: 3

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. Votes: 3

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. Votes: 3

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind. Votes: 3

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz. Votes: 3

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them. Votes: 3

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool? Votes: 3

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart. Votes: 3

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality. Votes: 3

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet. Votes: 3

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history. Votes: 3

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means. Votes: 3

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it. Votes: 3

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment. Votes: 3

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. Votes: 3

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live. Votes: 3

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. Votes: 3

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. Votes: 3

Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content. Votes: 3

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. Votes: 3

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment. Votes: 3

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. Votes: 3

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society. Votes: 3

Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains Votes: 3

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age. Votes: 3

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe. Votes: 3

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century, Votes: 3

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all. Votes: 3

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer! Votes: 3

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing. Votes: 3

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. Votes: 3

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine. Votes: 3

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. Votes: 3

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. Votes: 3

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. Votes: 3

Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America. Votes: 3

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz. Votes: 3

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. Votes: 3

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it. Votes: 3

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. Votes: 3

[Jazz musicians ] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing. Votes: 3

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners. Votes: 3

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard Votes: 3

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have. Votes: 3

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. Votes: 3

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. Votes: 3

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz. Votes: 3

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively. Votes: 3

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. Votes: 3

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that. Votes: 3

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back. Votes: 3

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends. Votes: 3

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. Votes: 3

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions. Votes: 3

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley. Votes: 3

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you. Votes: 3

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. Votes: 3

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world. Votes: 3

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me. Votes: 3

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice. Votes: 3

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap. Votes: 3

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz. Votes: 3

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it. Votes: 3

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. Votes: 3

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. Votes: 3

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist. Votes: 3

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine. Votes: 3

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation. Votes: 3

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. Votes: 3

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. Votes: 3

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. Votes: 3

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. Votes: 3

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic. Votes: 3

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend. Votes: 3

Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz. Votes: 3

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind. Votes: 3

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds. Votes: 3

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. Votes: 3

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it. Votes: 3

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it. Votes: 3

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it. Votes: 3

What we play is life. Votes: 2

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. Votes: 2

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. Votes: 2

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. Votes: 2

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. Votes: 2

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. Votes: 2

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Votes: 2

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts. Votes: 2

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. Votes: 2

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. Votes: 2

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. Votes: 2

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. Votes: 2

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. Votes: 2

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. Votes: 2

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself. Votes: 2

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. Votes: 2

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction. Votes: 2

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on. Votes: 2

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. Votes: 2

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Votes: 2

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. Votes: 2

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician. Votes: 2

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. Votes: 2

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. Votes: 2

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail. Votes: 2

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. Votes: 2

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. Votes: 2

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent. Votes: 2

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. Votes: 2

People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before. Votes: 2

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. Votes: 2

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens. Votes: 2

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before. Votes: 2

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon. Votes: 2

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. Votes: 2

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name. Votes: 2

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence. Votes: 2

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. Votes: 2

My music is jazz. Votes: 0

I've always loved jazz. Votes: 0

I love my jazz hands! Votes: 0

I'm a great jazz fan. Votes: 0

I'm not a jazz singer. Votes: 0

I'm not a big jazz fan. Votes: 0

I am a complete jazz nerd. Votes: 0

Bop is no love-child of jazz. Votes: 0

Painting, I think it's like jazz. Votes: 0

I do find modern jazz quite tricky. Votes: 0

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker. Votes: 0

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature. Votes: 0

Every "˜mistake' is an opportunity in jazz. Votes: 0

I love jazz music and sad music. Votes: 0

It's always fun to talk about jazz. Votes: 0

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz. Votes: 0

I have a secret love of jazz. Votes: 0

The jazz musician’s function is to feel, Votes: 0

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz. Votes: 0

I also like Western classical music and jazz. Votes: 0

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm. Votes: 0

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz. Votes: 0

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm Votes: 0

Sans le jazz, la vie serait une erreur Votes: 0

I did jazz dance for a few years. Votes: 0

I think I was supposed to play jazz. Votes: 0

I was totally into jazz in my teens. Votes: 0

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz. Votes: 0

Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone? Votes: 0

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar. Votes: 0

Being grown-up is boring. Besides, I don't get jazz. Votes: 0

An entire composition written in jazz could not live. Votes: 0

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme. Votes: 0

Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player! Votes: 0

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though. Votes: 0

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G. Votes: 0

The way I was singing the songs was jazz Votes: 0

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz. Votes: 0

You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble. Votes: 0

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. Votes: 0

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll. Votes: 0

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz. Votes: 0

Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue. Votes: 0

Shut up and let me see your jazz hands Votes: 0

I would say that jazz is my own language. Votes: 0

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration? Votes: 0

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz. Votes: 0

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. Votes: 0

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically. Votes: 0

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde. Votes: 0

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation. Votes: 0

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music. Votes: 0

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz. Votes: 0

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. Votes: 0

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible. Votes: 0

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake Votes: 0

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. Votes: 0

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz. Votes: 0

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America. Votes: 0

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question! Votes: 0

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem. Votes: 0

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. Votes: 0

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! Votes: 0

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz. Votes: 0

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake. Votes: 0

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician Votes: 0

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. Votes: 0

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album. Votes: 0

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning. Votes: 0

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything. Votes: 0

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum. Votes: 0

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz's unsung heroes Votes: 0

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life. Votes: 0

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. Votes: 0

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age. Votes: 0

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz. Votes: 0

Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century. Votes: 0

Nothing says "i came here to win" like jazz hands Votes: 0

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist. Votes: 0

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat. Votes: 0

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning. Votes: 0

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles. Votes: 0

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life. Votes: 0

I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one. Votes: 0

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not. Votes: 0

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today. Votes: 0

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also. Votes: 0

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order." Votes: 0

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer. Votes: 0

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations. Votes: 0

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music. Votes: 0

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. Votes: 0

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. Votes: 0

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet. Votes: 0

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived. Votes: 0

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about. Votes: 0

Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players. Votes: 0

Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock. Votes: 0

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae. Votes: 0

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. Votes: 0

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. Votes: 0

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. Votes: 0

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock. Votes: 0

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there. Votes: 0

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is Votes: 0

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. Votes: 0

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat. Votes: 0

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock Votes: 0

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B. Votes: 0

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. Votes: 0

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time. Votes: 0

I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to. Votes: 0

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer. Votes: 0

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time. Votes: 0

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. Votes: 0

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. Votes: 0

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on. Votes: 0

The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too. Votes: 0

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that. Votes: 0

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. Votes: 0

People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz. Votes: 0

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul. Votes: 0

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career. Votes: 0

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! Votes: 0

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. Votes: 0

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz. Votes: 0

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong. Votes: 0

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude. Votes: 0

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer. Votes: 0

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it. Votes: 0

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man. Votes: 0

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. Votes: 0

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. Votes: 0

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places. Votes: 0

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries. Votes: 0

and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it. Votes: 0

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other. Votes: 0

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs Votes: 0

I prefer her [Nina Simone] jazz period much more so than her folk period. Votes: 0

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered. Votes: 0

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz. Votes: 0

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. Votes: 0

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. Votes: 0

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. Votes: 0

Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music... Votes: 0

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues. Votes: 0

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz? Votes: 0

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything. Votes: 0

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. Votes: 0

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. Votes: 0

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to. Votes: 0

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. Votes: 0

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. Votes: 0

The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he’s cut out. Votes: 0

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band. Votes: 0

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect. Votes: 0

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. Votes: 0

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. Votes: 0

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. Votes: 0

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. Votes: 0

Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz. Votes: 0

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country. Votes: 0

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues. Votes: 0

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. Votes: 0

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me. Votes: 0

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time. Votes: 0

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. Votes: 0

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. Votes: 0

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music. Votes: 0

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny. Votes: 0

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him. Votes: 0

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach. Votes: 0

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter. Votes: 0

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own. Votes: 0

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. Votes: 0

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. Votes: 0

If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. Votes: 0

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. Votes: 0

Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers. Votes: 0

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore. Votes: 0

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky. Votes: 0

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever. Votes: 0

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open. Votes: 0

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed. Votes: 0

I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not. Votes: 0

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. Votes: 0

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him. Votes: 0

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible. Votes: 0

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants. Votes: 0

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that? Votes: 0

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record. Votes: 0

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz. Votes: 0

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big. Votes: 0

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense. Votes: 0

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. Votes: 0

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. Votes: 0

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty. Votes: 0

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation. Votes: 0

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. Votes: 0

Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. Votes: 0

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now. Votes: 0

The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming. Votes: 0

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. Votes: 0

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself. Votes: 0

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style. Votes: 0

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested. Votes: 0

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. Votes: 0

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. Votes: 0

Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type... Votes: 0

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations. Votes: 0

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player. Votes: 0

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself. Votes: 0

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. Votes: 0

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing. Votes: 0

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz. Votes: 0

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz. Votes: 0

I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation. Votes: 0

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players. Votes: 0

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. Votes: 0

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers. Votes: 0

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player Votes: 0

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz. Votes: 0

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm. Votes: 0

Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem. Votes: 0

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals. Votes: 0

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way. Votes: 0

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since. Votes: 0

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. Votes: 0

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style. Votes: 0

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz. Votes: 0

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz. Votes: 0

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker. Votes: 0

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz. Votes: 0

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues Votes: 0

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan. Votes: 0

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find. Votes: 0

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble. Votes: 0

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. Votes: 0

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. Votes: 0

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. Votes: 0

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy, Votes: 0

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit. Votes: 0

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz. Votes: 0

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level. Votes: 0

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars. Votes: 0

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all. Votes: 0

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years. Votes: 0

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music. Votes: 0

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. Votes: 0

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. Votes: 0

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz. Votes: 0

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing. Votes: 0

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her. Votes: 0

I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room. Votes: 0

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. Votes: 0

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. Votes: 0

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift. Votes: 0

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan. Votes: 0

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet. Votes: 0

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway. Votes: 0

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine. Votes: 0

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. Votes: 0

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. Votes: 0

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music. Votes: 0

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it. Votes: 0

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. Votes: 0

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks. Votes: 0

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing. Votes: 0

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Votes: 0

I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz. Votes: 0

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz. Votes: 0

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. Votes: 0

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried. Votes: 0

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena. Votes: 0

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert. Votes: 0

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living. Votes: 0

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you? Votes: 0

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time. Votes: 0

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music. Votes: 0

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. Votes: 0

If my name were Nubby Blues, I wouldn't be a jazz musician, I'd be a disabled Vietnam vet on welfare. Votes: 0

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. Votes: 0

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. Votes: 0

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. Votes: 0

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. Votes: 0

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. Votes: 0

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce. Votes: 0

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz. Votes: 0

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice. Votes: 0

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial. Votes: 0

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time. Votes: 0

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. Votes: 0