Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

Jazz is the music of the body.

Jazz is what I play for a living.

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

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

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

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

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

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

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

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

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

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

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

Jazz music is the power of now.

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

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

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 was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

Jazz was my first love.

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined, it became Laguardia School of Arts.

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.