Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I don't dig staying in one groove.

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

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

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

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

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

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

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

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

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

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds of music, but I'd say soulful World Music is my favorite.

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

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

I find my inspiration in myself.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

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

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

If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

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

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

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

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