Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.

It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

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

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

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

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 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 been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

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

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

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 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 a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

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 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.