Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to

Always look ahead, but never look back.

Always pack your uniform on top.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

Bebop has set music back twenty years.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

Blow your life through your horn.

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.

But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.