Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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 understood everything I say, you'd be me!

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

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?

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

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 bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

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

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

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 I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

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

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

I learn something new every day.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

I like textures and tones. Sometimes, it will be a melodic feedback from a song or something. I like warm, ethereal sounds. That kind of gets covered in every genre of music, so it could be a rock sample, jazz, soul, reggae.

I like to envision the creation of a short story collection as being like putting together a jazz album. Yes, there's logic and literary structures imposed by me, but at the same time, all the tracks are shaped and ordered in a much more improvisational manner. The guiding principle for me is whether or not a story adds a layer or texture to the overall collection.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

I love jazz music and sad music.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.