Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

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

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

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

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.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.

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

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

I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relateds for it. So it's been a lot of random jazz s - - lately. Like I found Lonnie Liston Smith, and Ahmad Jamal, s - - like that. So that's been very tight.

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

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

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

I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

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

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

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

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

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

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.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

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.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

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

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

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

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

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

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

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.

Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

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

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

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

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

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

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

Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!

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

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

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

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

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

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