Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relateds for it. So it's been a lot of random jazz s - - lately. Like I found Lonnie Liston Smith, and Ahmad Jamal, s - - like that. So that's been very tight.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

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

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 wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

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 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 unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

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 was totally into jazz in my teens.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

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 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, 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.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'

"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It's not so much a genre, but a way of expression.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

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