Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

I find my inspiration in myself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

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

I have a secret love of 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 hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.

I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

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