Quotes about Jazz Music

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. Votes: 5

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. Votes: 4

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. Votes: 4

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. Votes: 4

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. Votes: 4

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. Votes: 4

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. Votes: 4

Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires. Votes: 3

Jazz music is the power of now. Votes: 2

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. Votes: 2

This is so nice, it must be illegal. Votes: 2

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music. Votes: 2

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love. Votes: 2

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast. Votes: 2

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. Votes: 2

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. Votes: 2

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much. Votes: 2

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. Votes: 2

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

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

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people. Votes: 2

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside. Votes: 2

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it. Votes: 2

Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well. Votes: 2

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves. Votes: 2

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know? Votes: 2

I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?' Votes: 2

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies. Votes: 2

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free. Votes: 2

Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful. Votes: 2

Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it. 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. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. Votes: 2

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art. Votes: 2

Big band music, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the lyrics are really sweet, and they're just really family-friendly. The second thing is the music is jazz music, so the music is complicated enough to hold your attention for 5 or 6 million plays. That makes the songs interesting. The last part is the fact that it's danceable. Votes: 2

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form. Votes: 2

We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living. Votes: 2

My music is jazz. Votes: 0

Jazz is democracy in music. Votes: 0

Jazz is not background music. Votes: 0

Jazz is America's classical music. Votes: 0

Jazz is the music of unemployment. Votes: 0

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. Votes: 0

Jazz to me is a living music. Votes: 0

Jazz is the music of the body. Votes: 0

I love jazz music and sad music. Votes: 0

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music. Votes: 0

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. Votes: 0

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

Jazz music is a language of the emotions. Votes: 0

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food. Votes: 0

Jazz will be the classical music of the future. Votes: 0

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. Votes: 0

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. Votes: 0

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

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

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music. Votes: 0

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

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

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music. Votes: 0

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. Votes: 0

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

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

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. Votes: 0

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. Votes: 0

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

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

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. Votes: 0

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

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. Votes: 0

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

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. Votes: 0

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

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. Votes: 0

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

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. Votes: 0

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

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley. Votes: 0

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. Votes: 0

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

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions. Votes: 0

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz. Votes: 0

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

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that. Votes: 0

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! Votes: 0

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. Votes: 0

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

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

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. 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 started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything Votes: 0

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. 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

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes. 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'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. Votes: 0

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. Votes: 0

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. Votes: 0

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. Votes: 0

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. Votes: 0

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

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. Votes: 0

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat. Votes: 0

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. Votes: 0

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it. Votes: 0

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. Votes: 0

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. Votes: 0

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America. Votes: 0

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

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. Votes: 0

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything. Votes: 0

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. Votes: 0

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well. Votes: 0

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili. Votes: 0

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it. Votes: 0

In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues. Votes: 0

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy. Votes: 0

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. Votes: 0

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source Votes: 0

Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear. Votes: 0

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. Votes: 0

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord. Votes: 0

I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor. Votes: 0

The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. Votes: 0

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz. Votes: 0

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music. ... Votes: 0

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. Votes: 0

Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. Votes: 0

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music. Votes: 0

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time. Votes: 0

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues. Votes: 0

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise. Votes: 0

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. Votes: 0

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity. Votes: 0

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos. Votes: 0

Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's redefined Latin jazz! Votes: 0

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity. Votes: 0

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too. Votes: 0

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have. Votes: 0

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there. Votes: 0

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people. Votes: 0

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. Votes: 0

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music! Votes: 0

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz. Votes: 0

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community. Votes: 0

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. Votes: 0

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land. Votes: 0

Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument. Votes: 0

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth. Votes: 0