Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

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

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 is about freedom within discipline.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

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.

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.