Best 709 quotes in «jazz quotes» category

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

I find my inspiration in myself.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds of music, but I'd say soulful World Music is my favorite.

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.

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 don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.

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

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

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

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'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?

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

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.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

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

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 have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

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

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 secret love of jazz.

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

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

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

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

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

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

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 learn something new every day.

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

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

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

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 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.