Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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.

John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.

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

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

Jazz is America's classical music.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.

Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.